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Llama 3 Instruct 8B vs Qwen2 Instruct (72B)

Meta · released

Wins 0 of 2 areas

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Alibaba · released

Wins 1 of 2 areas

Coding

Qwen2 Instruct (72B) wins more areas, narrowly.

Scores updated · 29 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$0.04 to read · $0.14 to write$0.19Price from Artificial Analysis
Qwen2 Instruct (72B)No current price is tracked.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where Qwen2 Instruct (72B) pulls ahead

  • Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+11points aheadQwen2 Instruct (72B)22.9Llama 3 Instruct 8B11.9
  • Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+7.5points aheadQwen2 Instruct (72B)37.1Llama 3 Instruct 8B29.6

Where Llama 3 Instruct 8B pulls ahead

  • Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+1.4points aheadLlama 3 Instruct 8B5.1Qwen2 Instruct (72B)3.7

Every test, side by side

All 29 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingQwen2 Instruct (72B)
  • SciCodeQwen2 Instruct (72B) by 1111.922.9+11

Full coding ranking

ReasoningEven

Full reasoning ranking

Other results26 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.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Llama 3 Instruct 8B or Qwen2 Instruct (72B)?

Qwen2 Instruct (72B) wins one of the two areas where both have results: coding. Llama 3 Instruct 8B wins none. They are level on reasoning.

Which is better for coding?

Qwen2 Instruct (72B). It wins the one coding test both models report.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 29 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 26 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.