Model comparison
Llama 2-13B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Meta
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 29.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 47.7% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
Side by side
| Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| DTBench | 42.2% | 47.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 106.17 | 118.51 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |
Math Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1065 | — |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |
Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 55.6% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | — |
| LMArena French | 1044 | — |
| LMArena German | 1009 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1087 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1045 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1084 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-13B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 2-13B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.