Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads 24.9 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.3% for Llama 2-70B and 56.1% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Llama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index24.430.1
Released2023-07-182024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked357

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1079—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index113.79128.52
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
DTBench41.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%—
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
ForecastBench51.4—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA78.9%—
PIQA82.8%—
WinoGrande80.2%—

Math Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%7.4%
MATH Level 53.3%56.1%
LMArena Math1091—
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond26.3%46.1%
LMArena Expert1039—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—
MMLU69.9%—
OpenBookQA60.2%—
TriviaQA87.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1045—
LMArena Chinese995—
LMArena French1090—
LMArena German1041—
LMArena Japanese927—
LMArena Korean964—
LMArena Russian1083—
LMArena Spanish1143—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1071—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1062—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1115—
LMArena Creative Writing1075—
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-70B or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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