# Llama 2-34B vs Qwen3 8B

> Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-34b-vs-qwen3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-34B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.7 |
| Rank | — | 238 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 105.2 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 44.1% | — |
| PIQA | 81.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.7% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 42.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.7% | — |
| MMLU | 62.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-34B better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.