Model comparison

Llama 3.2 1B vs Llama 3-70B

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

20.1

Rank #354 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 1B scores higher in 0 categories and Llama 3-70B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama 3-70B leads 42.8 to 21.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 11.3% for Llama 3.2 1B and 54.5% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Llama 3.2 1B and Llama 3-70B specifications
Llama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index20.128.8
Released2024-09-242024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window60K—
Max output54K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.027—
Output $ / M tokens$0.20—
Results tracked2231

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct8.2%43.6%
LMArena Coding10701206
BigCodeBench Complete11.3%54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard10.8%—
Cybench—5%
BALROG6.6%—

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts10441195
Epoch Capabilities Index101.99122.93
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
Chess Puzzles0%—
DTBench—54.2%
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%4.3%
LMArena Math10861218
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond23.9%40.6%
LMArena Expert10071149
MMLU—79.3%

Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English9731142
LMArena Chinese9591114
LMArena German10141169
LMArena Russian9411159
LMArena French—1232
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017
LMArena Spanish—1241

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following10311194

Long Context Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query10501174

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text10551221
LMArena Creative Writing10331210
LMArena Multi-Turn10301223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing200—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.2 1B better than Llama 3-70B?

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3.2 1B or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 1B and Llama 3-70B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 1B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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