Model comparison

Llama 3-8B vs Qwen-7B

Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Llama 3-8B and Qwen-7B specifications
Llama 3-8BQwen-7B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.5—
Released2024-04-182023-09-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked348

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289), Qwen-7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
BigCodeBench Instruct31.9%—
LMArena Coding1152—
BigCodeBench Complete36.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326), Qwen-7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
Epoch Capabilities Index116.45106.83
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1133—
DTBench43.9%—
Adversarial NLI57.3%—
BIG-Bench Hard—45%
ForecastBench58.6—
LAMBADA—67.9%
PIQA—77.9%
WinoGrande75.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323), Qwen-7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.9%—
LMArena Math1151—
MATH Level 56.1%—
GSM8K—51.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308), Qwen-7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge82.8%75.3%
MMLU68.8%45%
GPQA Diamond26.1%—
LMArena Expert1113—
BoolQ—76.4%
OpenBookQA82.6%—
TriviaQA67.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261), Qwen-7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
LMArena Non-English1098—
LMArena Chinese1076—
LMArena French1159—
LMArena German1104—
LMArena Japanese967—
LMArena Korean1004—
LMArena Russian1109—
LMArena Spanish1173—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260), Qwen-7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
LMArena Instruction Following1127—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251), Qwen-7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
LMArena Longer Query1128—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256), Qwen-7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen-7B
LMArena Text1166—
LMArena Creative Writing1150—
LMArena Multi-Turn1152—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-8B better than Qwen-7B?

Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-8B and Qwen-7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-8B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-7B has 8.

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