Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Qwen1.5-72B

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-72B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-7B leads 28.2 to 11.5.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Llama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.130.8
Released2023-07-182024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2922

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-72B leads

Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding10021165
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts10091148
Chess Puzzles0%—
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index99.06—
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math10421164
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Expert10361136
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
MMLU45.8%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
ScienceQA43.1%—

Multilingual Qwen1.5-72B leads

Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English9731135
LMArena Chinese9731186
LMArena French9701159
LMArena German9781084
LMArena Russian9951104
LMArena Spanish10071110
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1050

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads

Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following10061141

Long Context Qwen1.5-72B leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query9991157

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text10531166
LMArena Creative Writing10331137
LMArena Multi-Turn10291160

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-7B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-7B or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-72B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.9 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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