Model comparison

Llama 3.1-70B vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.1-70B Meta

29.6

Rank #308 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-70B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-4B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 29.7 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 3.6% for Llama 3.1-70B and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.

Side by side

Llama 3.1-70B and Qwen3-4B specifications
Llama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.631.9
Released2024-07-232025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked356

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
WeirdML9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LMArena Coding1260—
BigCodeBench Complete54.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
TheAgentCompany6.9%—
BALROG27.9%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1241—
DTBench60%—
LMCA14.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index125.92—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20253.6%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
Omni-MATH21%—
LMArena Math1252—
MATH Level 536.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond44.2%52.3%
MMLU-Pro65.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
GPQA (HELM)42.6%—
LMArena Expert1209—
MMLU80.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1219—
LMArena Chinese1215—
LMArena French1261—
LMArena German1222—
LMArena Japanese1132—
LMArena Korean1140—
LMArena Russian1234—
LMArena Spanish1253—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
IFEval82.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1231—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1241—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1261—
LMArena Creative Writing1232—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing784—
WildBench75.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1256—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.1-70B better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-70B and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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