Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Qwen1.5-110B

Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-110B leads 33.7 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 54.5% for Llama 3-70B and 44.4% for Qwen1.5-110B.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Llama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.834.2
Released2024-04-182024-04-25
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3120

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%35%
LMArena Coding12061184
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%44.4%
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+69%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
Cybench5%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-110B leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts11951168
ForecastBench57.157.7
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%—
DTBench54.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93—
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math Qwen1.5-110B leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math12181185
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
MATH Level 522.6%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-110B leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert11491144
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
MMLU79.3%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English11421142
LMArena Chinese11141206
LMArena French12321151
LMArena German11691123
LMArena Japanese10171074
LMArena Korean10171044
LMArena Russian11591118
LMArena Spanish12411142

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following11941158

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query11741157

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text12211175
LMArena Creative Writing12101148
LMArena Multi-Turn12231160

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-70B or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Qwen1.5-110B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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