Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 39.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Llama 3-70B and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and Qwen3.6 Flash specifications
Llama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.838.8
Released2024-04-182026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked3113

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%—
LMArena Coding1206—
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%—
ALE-Bench—326.4
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+69%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
Cybench5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
DTBench54.2%77.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%—
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1195—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
LMCA—31%
ForecastBench57.1—
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%84.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
LMArena Math1218—
MATH Level 522.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond40.6%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
LMArena Expert1149—
MMLU79.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1142—
LMArena Chinese1114—
LMArena French1232—
LMArena German1169—
LMArena Japanese1017—
LMArena Korean1017—
LMArena Russian1159—
LMArena Spanish1241—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1194—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1174—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1221—
LMArena Creative Writing1210—
LMArena Multi-Turn1223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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