Model comparison
Llama 2-70B vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Meta
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 41.3 to 7.4.
Side by side
| Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 24.1 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1079 | 1441 |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| DTBench | 41.6% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 64.9% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 50% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.59 | — |
| ForecastBench | 51.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 78.9% | — |
| PIQA | 82.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 80.2% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1091 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.3% | — |
| GSM8K | 69.6% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1039 | 1416 |
| GPQA Diamond | 26.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.6% | — |
| MMLU | 69.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 60.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.6% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1045 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 994 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | 1089 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1041 | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | 927 | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | 964 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1083 | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1142 | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1071 | 1388 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1062 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1115 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1075 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | 1415 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-70B better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 2-70B or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 30.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.