Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Plus in 9 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.7 Plus leads 50.5 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Llama 3-70B and 93.3% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and Qwen3.7 Plus specifications
Llama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.845.3
Released2024-04-182026-06-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked3132

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Coding12061473
FrontierCode—10.2%
SciCode—45.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%—
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+69%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
OSWorld 2.0—2.8%
Cybench5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts11951460
DTBench54.2%84%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93147.37
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)—74.8%
CritPt—9.1%
Chess Puzzles—24%
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
LMCA—37.6%
ForecastBench57.1—
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%93.3%
LMArena Math12181466
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—34.4%
MATH Level 522.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
GPQA Diamond40.6%87.9%
LMArena Expert11491467
MMLU79.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision—1279
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Non-English11421445
LMArena Chinese11141510
LMArena French12321473
LMArena German11691471
LMArena Japanese10171413
LMArena Korean10171415
LMArena Russian11591457
LMArena Spanish12411457

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following11941440

Long Context Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Longer Query11741455

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text12211455
LMArena Creative Writing12101439
LMArena Multi-Turn12231460

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-70B or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.8 vs 36.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Qwen3.7 Plus share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.

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