# Llama 2-34B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

> Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-34b-vs-qwen2-5-coder-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.4 |
| Rank | — | 245 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.66 |
| Output $/M | — | $1 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 105.2 | 119.49 |
| WinoGrande | 76.7% | 80.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 44.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| PIQA | 81.9% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 42.2% | 93% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | 70.5% |
| MMLU | 62.6% | 79.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| BoolQ | 83.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-34B better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.