Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.1

Rank #343 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 32.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 26.3% for Llama 2-70B and 35.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Llama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index24.128.6
Released2023-07-182024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked3515

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1079—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
DTBench41.6%47.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index113.59118.44
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
LMCA—6.4%
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%—
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
ForecastBench51.4—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA78.9%—
PIQA82.8%—
WinoGrande80.2%—

Math Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1091—
MATH Level 53.3%—
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond26.3%35.5%
MMLU69.9%72.9%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1039—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—
OpenBookQA60.2%—
TriviaQA87.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1045—
LMArena Chinese994—
LMArena French1089—
LMArena German1041—
LMArena Japanese927—
LMArena Korean964—
LMArena Russian1083—
LMArena Spanish1142—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1071—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1062—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1115—
LMArena Creative Writing1075—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-70B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 30.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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