Model comparison
Llama 2-13B vs Llama 3.1-70B
Llama 2-13B and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-13B leads 31.1 to 13.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 60% for Llama 3.1-70B.
Side by side
| Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | 1260 |
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | 1241 |
| DTBench | 42.2% | 60% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 106.17 | 125.92 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |
Math Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1065 | 1252 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 21% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |
Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | 1209 |
| MMLU | 55.6% | 80.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 44.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | 1215 |
| LMArena French | 1044 | 1261 |
| LMArena German | 1009 | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1087 | 1253 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1045 | 1231 |
| IFEval | — | 82.1% |
Long Context Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | 1241 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-70B leads
Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1084 | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | 1232 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | 1256 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| WildBench | — | 75.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-13B better than Llama 3.1-70B?
Llama 2-13B and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 2-13B or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (30.9 vs 30.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Llama 3.1-70B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.