Model comparison

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.3

Rank #283 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-4B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 28.5 to 14.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 5.1% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.

Side by side

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Qwen3-4B specifications
Llama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.331.5
Released2024-12-062025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.32—
Results tracked436

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#284), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
SciCode26%—
WeirdML14.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.9%—
LiveBench Coding36.6%—
LMArena Coding1268—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-4B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.6 (#100), Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard31.9%35.7%
BALROG23%—

Reasoning Qwen3-4B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 13.7 (#325), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
SimpleBench19.9%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
LiveBench Reasoning50.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench59.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis49.5%—
LMCA17.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.32—
ForecastBench58.6—
LiveBench50.2%—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.3 (#292), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.1%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
LiveBench Math42.2%—
LMArena Math1268—
MATH Level 541.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.5 (#220), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond47.4%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.1%5.7%
Confabulations22.8%—
LMArena Expert1225—
MMLU86.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 40.1 (#215), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1236—
LMArena Chinese1217—
LMArena French1280—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1149—
LMArena Korean1142—
LMArena Russian1252—
LMArena Spanish1269—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.3 (#152), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
LiveBench Instruction Following82.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1242—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#290), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1256—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.8 (#203), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1274—
LMArena Creative Writing1250—
LMArena Multi-Turn1279—
LiveBench Language39.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Qwen3-4B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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