Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Qwen2-72B

Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); 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

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Qwen2-72B specifications
Llama 2-34BQwen2-72B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—30.0
Released2023-07-182024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1026

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LMArena Coding—1196
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
Epoch Capabilities Index105.2125.28
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%—
PIQA81.9%—
WinoGrande76.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
LMArena Math—1235
MATH Level 5—39.1%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
MMLU62.6%82.4%
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
LMArena Expert—1171
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
BoolQ83.7%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—
TriviaQA84.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English—1176
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1170
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083
LMArena Russian—1169
LMArena Spanish—1169

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1192

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1196

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Qwen2-72B?

Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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