Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-4B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-4B leads 33.0 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0% for Llama 2-70B and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Qwen3-4B specifications
Llama 2-70BQwen3-4B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index24.431.9
Released2023-07-182025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked356

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
LMArena Coding1079—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
DTBench41.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%—
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
Epoch Capabilities Index113.79—
ForecastBench51.4—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA78.9%—
PIQA82.8%—
WinoGrande80.2%—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
LMArena Math1091—
MATH Level 53.3%—
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond26.3%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1039—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—
MMLU69.9%—
OpenBookQA60.2%—
TriviaQA87.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
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), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1071—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1062—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1115—
LMArena Creative Writing1075—
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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