# Llama 2-7B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

> Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-7b-vs-qwen2-5-coder-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 37.8 to 23.8.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 317 | 245 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.66 |
| Output $/M | — | $1 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1002 | 1276 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1009 | 1251 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 99.06 | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | 77.2% | 83% |
| WinoGrande | 69.2% | 80.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 39.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 73.3% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| PIQA | 78.8% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1042 | 1251 |
| GSM8K | 16.7% | 93% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 45.9% | 70.5% |
| MMLU | 45.8% | 79.1% |
| BoolQ | 77.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-7B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.1% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 973 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 973 | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | 995 | 1228 |
| LMArena French | 970 | — |
| LMArena German | 978 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1007 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1006 | 1223 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 999 | 1251 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1053 | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1033 | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1029 | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-7B better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 2-7B or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Llama 2-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.