Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); 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 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Qwen3 8B specifications
Llama 2-34BQwen3 8B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—33.7
Released2023-07-182025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.18
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1011

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3 8B
Epoch Capabilities Index105.2136.17
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
DTBench—59.7%
LMCA—8.8%
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%—
PIQA81.9%—
WinoGrande76.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—56.1%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond—56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
BoolQ83.7%—
MMLU62.6%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—
TriviaQA84.6%—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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