Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.6

Rank #276 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.9 to 51.0.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
Llama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index28.630.6
Released2023-07-182025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked2954

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Coding10021302
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Hard Prompts10091281
Epoch Capabilities Index98.54132.2
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles0%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231), Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Math10421299
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Expert10361259
GPQA Diamond—67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
MMLU45.8%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1141
GeoBench—52%
ScienceQA43.1%—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English9731269
LMArena Chinese9731277
LMArena French9691258
LMArena German9781291
LMArena Russian9951286
LMArena Spanish10071293
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following10061267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query9991280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293), Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text10531287
LMArena Creative Writing10331266
LMArena Multi-Turn10291289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-7B better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-7B or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Llama 2-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.7 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Llama 4 Maverick share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

Related comparisons

Go deeper