Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-34B Meta

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Unranked

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Qwen3.5-9B specifications
Llama 2-34BQwen3.5-9B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—33.3
Released2023-07-182026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked1010

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3.5-9B
SciCode—27.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3.5-9B
Epoch Capabilities Index104.81139.45
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—12%
DTBench—71.2%
LMCA—24.5%
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%—
PIQA81.9%—
WinoGrande76.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3.5-9B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—61.7%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond—79%
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
BoolQ83.7%—
MMLU62.6%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—
TriviaQA84.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Qwen3.5-9B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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