Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 32B leads 39.7 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Llama 3-70B and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and Qwen3 32B specifications
Llama 3-70BQwen3 32B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.839.2
Released2024-04-182025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked3126

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding12061358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%—
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+69%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
Cybench5%—

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%54.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts11951334
DTBench54.2%67.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93138.51
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LMCA—17.3%
ForecastBench57.1—
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%66.9%
LMArena Math12181399
MATH Level 522.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond40.6%65.7%
LMArena Expert11491362
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%
MMLU79.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English11421317
LMArena Chinese11141357
LMArena German11691341
LMArena Russian11591311
LMArena French1232—
LMArena Japanese1017—
LMArena Korean1017—
LMArena Spanish1241—

Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following11941305

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query11741327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3 32B
LMArena Text12211340
LMArena Creative Writing12101297
LMArena Multi-Turn12231331

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-70B or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Qwen3 32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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