Model comparison
Llama 2-7B vs Llama 3.2 3B
Llama 2-7B and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Llama 3.2 3B leads 21.0 to 15.7.
Side by side
| Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 28.9 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.33 |
| Results tracked | 29 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 2-7B leads
Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1002 | 1098 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 23.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 28.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 2-7B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1009 | 1095 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 39.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 99.06 | — |
| HellaSwag | 77.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 73.3% | — |
| PIQA | 78.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 69.2% | — |
Math Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1042 | 1126 |
| GSM8K | 16.7% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1090 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 45.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 77.9% | — |
| MMLU | 45.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 2-7B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.1% | — |
Multilingual Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 973 | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | 973 | 1017 |
| LMArena German | 978 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 995 | 949 |
| LMArena French | 970 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1007 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1006 | 1089 |
Long Context Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 999 | 1100 |
Writing & Preference Llama 2-7B leads
Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1053 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1033 | 1094 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1029 | 1105 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-7B better than Llama 3.2 3B?
Llama 2-7B and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 2-7B or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?
Llama 2-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Llama 3.2 3B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.