Model comparison

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads 38.7 to 31.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 41.6% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and 56.1% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Llama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.630.1
Released2024-12-062024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K131K
Max output4K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.32$2.80
Results tracked437

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct46.9%45%
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%52.3%
SciCode26%—
WeirdML14.4%—
LiveBench Coding36.6%—
LMArena Coding1268—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard31.9%—
BALROG23%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index127.33128.52
SimpleBench19.9%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench59.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis49.5%—
LMCA17.5%—
ForecastBench58.6—
LiveBench50.2%—

Math Too close to call

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.1%7.4%
MATH Level 541.6%56.1%
LiveBench Math42.2%—
LMArena Math1267—

Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond47.4%46.1%
Confabulations22.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.1%—
LMArena Expert1225—
MMLU86.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1236—
LMArena Chinese1217—
LMArena French1281—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1150—
LMArena Korean1143—
LMArena Russian1252—
LMArena Spanish1270—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following82.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1242—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1256—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1274—
LMArena Creative Writing1250—
LMArena Multi-Turn1280—
LiveBench Language39.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 32B Instruct lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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