Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct wins more areas, narrowly.Llama 3 Instruct 8B is cheaper.
Scores updated · 13 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the two areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
Coding rests on a single test.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Llama 3 Instruct 8B costs 27% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct pulls ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+15.2points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+12.1points ahead
Where Llama 3 Instruct 8B pulls ahead
- Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+1.6points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 13 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- SciCodeQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 15.211.927.1+15.2
ReasoningEven
- GPQA DiamondQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 12.129.641.7+12.1
- Humanity's Last ExamLlama 3 Instruct 8B by 1.65.13.5+1.6
Other results10 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- GSM8KQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 41.249.991.1+41.2
- HumanEvalQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 32.360.492.7+32.3
- MBPPQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 22.567.790.2+22.5
- Theorem QAQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 2122.143.1+21
- WinoGrandeQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 15.86580.8+15.8
- MMLU-ProQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 1535.450.4+15
- ARC-ChallengeLlama 3 Instruct 8B by 12.382.870.5+12.3
- HellaSwagQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 11.971.183+11.9
- TruthfulQALlama 3 Instruct 8B by 963.254.2+9
- AA IntelligenceQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 1.94.86.7+1.9
Questions people ask
Which is better, Llama 3 Instruct 8B or Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct wins one of the two areas where both have results: coding. Llama 3 Instruct 8B wins none, but costs 27% less. They are level on reasoning.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct. It wins the one coding test both models report.
Which is cheaper?
Llama 3 Instruct 8B costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs $0.06 and $0.20. That makes Llama 3 Instruct 8B about 27% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 13 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 3 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 10 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.