Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3 8B
Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.6 to 34.0.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.7 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3 8B?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.