Model comparison
Llama 2-34B vs Llama 3.1-70B
Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#299); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 29.4 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 29.8 (#292)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1260 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 24.9 (#104)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 20.8 (#215)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.81 | 125.91 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1241 |
| DTBench | — | 60% |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 44.1% | — |
| PIQA | 81.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 12.7 (#298)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 21% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1252 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |
| GSM8K | 42.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 24.1 (#264)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 62.6% | 80.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 44.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1209 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.6% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 38.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1215 |
| LMArena French | — | 1260 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1253 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 65.5 (#218)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 82.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1231 |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#208)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1241 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 35.6 (#262)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1232 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| WildBench | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1256 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-34B better than Llama 3.1-70B?
Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#299); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Llama 3.1-70B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.