Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 16.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 29% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 45% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 45% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 52.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1056 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 56.1% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.