Model comparison

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

Llama 2-7B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 28.0.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Llama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.129.0
Released2023-07-182024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked2915

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1002—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

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

Reasoning Too close to call

Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles0%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index99.06118.51
LMArena Hard Prompts1009—
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1042—
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
MMLU45.8%72.9%
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1036—
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ScienceQA43.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English973—
LMArena Chinese973—
LMArena French970—
LMArena German978—
LMArena Russian995—
LMArena Spanish1007—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1006—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query999—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1053—
LMArena Creative Writing1033—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1029—

Frequently asked questions

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

Llama 2-7B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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