Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3-1.7B

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.6

Rank #336 Reported

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Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.726.6
Released—2025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked74

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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