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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

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Winner summary

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct wins 6 of 9 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · general · math.

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knowledge·Qwen2.5 32B Instructgeneral·Qwen2.5 32B Instructlanguage·Llama 3.1 70B Instructmath·Qwen2.5 32B Instructreasoning·Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Hype vs Reality
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
#216 by perf·#18 by attention
QUIET
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
#222 by perf·#2 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
90.7 pts/$
$0.40/M
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.87T·Tier 1
Low risk
Alibaba logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Llama 3.1 70B InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA diamond
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +2.5
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
25.6
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
28.1
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +0.6
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
55.9
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
56.5
GPQA
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads by +2.5
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
14.2
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
11.7
IFEval
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads by +3.2
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
86.7
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
83.5
MATH Level 5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +24.5
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
38.1
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
62.5
MMLU-PRO
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +4.0
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
47.9
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
51.9
MUSR
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads by +4.2
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
17.7
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
13.5
MATH level 5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +19.4
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
36.7
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
56.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +3.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
3.5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
7.3
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 70B InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
25.628.1
BBH (HuggingFace)
55.956.5
GPQA
14.211.7
IFEval
86.783.5
MATH Level 5
38.162.5
MMLU-PRO
47.951.9
MUSR
17.713.5
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
36.756.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
3.57.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Meta logoLlama 3.1 70B Instruct$0.40$0.40131K tokens (~66 books)$4.00
Alibaba logoQwen2.5 32B Instruct————