Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-34B Meta

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Unranked

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #259 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Llama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—31.5
Released2023-07-182024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked1043

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
LMArena Coding—1293
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%79.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index104.81129.01
PIQA81.9%82.6%
WinoGrande76.7%82.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1271
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag—84.8%

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
LMArena Math—1283
MATH Level 5—63.2%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%94.5%
MMLU62.6%85.3%
TriviaQA84.6%71.9%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
LMArena Expert—1245
BoolQ83.7%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1252
LMArena Chinese—1272
LMArena French—1279
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1264
LMArena Spanish—1255

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval—80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following—1254

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1282

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text—1269
LMArena Creative Writing—1221
WildBench—80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1272

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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