Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 41.6 to 29.8.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Llama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.633.4
Released2023-07-182024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked3231

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Coding10621276
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts10511251
Epoch Capabilities Index106.17119.49
HellaSwag80.7%83%
WinoGrande72.8%80.8%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
DTBench42.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
LiveBench—46.2%
PIQA80.8%—

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math10651251
GSM8K36.9%93%
LiveBench Math—46.6%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert10301221
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%70.5%
MMLU55.6%79.1%
BoolQ82.4%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English10241205
LMArena Chinese10011222
LMArena Russian10551228
LMArena French1044—
LMArena German1009—
LMArena Japanese894—
LMArena Korean953—
LMArena Spanish1087—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following10451223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query10641251

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text10841230
LMArena Creative Writing10471174
LMArena Multi-Turn10501222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-13B or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.9 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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