Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick has enough public results to be ranked (#276); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-34B Meta

—

Unranked

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.6

Rank #276 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
Llama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index—30.6
Released2023-07-182025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked1054

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
LMArena Coding—1302
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
Epoch Capabilities Index104.81132.2
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1281
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%—
ForecastBench—57.5
PIQA81.9%—
WinoGrande76.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
LMArena Math—1299
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond—67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
LMArena Expert—1259
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
BoolQ83.7%—
MMLU62.6%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—
TriviaQA84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1141
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English—1269
LMArena Chinese—1277
LMArena French—1258
LMArena German—1291
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203
LMArena Russian—1286
LMArena Spanish—1293

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
IFEval—90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1280

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text—1287
LMArena Creative Writing—1266
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1289

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has enough public results to be ranked (#276); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Llama 4 Maverick share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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