Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen1.5-7B

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.6 to 32.2.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.731.4
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked713

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1107
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts10521065

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math—1080

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert—1055
MMLU—62.6%

Multilingual Qwen1.5-7B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English9921058
LMArena Chinese—1141
LMArena Russian—1006

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-7B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following10241058

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query—1090

Writing & Preference Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text10571083
LMArena Creative Writing—1035
LMArena Multi-Turn—1062

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-7B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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