Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-34B Meta

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Unranked

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Llama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—28.6
Released2023-07-182024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1015

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index104.81118.44
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%—
PIQA81.9%—
WinoGrande76.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
MMLU62.6%72.9%
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
BoolQ83.7%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—
TriviaQA84.6%—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench—73.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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