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Llama 3.2 1B Instruct vs QwQ 32B
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Winner summary
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct wins on 4/7 benchmarks
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct wins 4 of 7 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · language.
Category leads
arena·QwQ 32Bgeneral·Llama 3.2 1B Instructknowledge·Llama 3.2 1B Instructlanguage·Llama 3.2 1B Instructmath·QwQ 32Breasoning·QwQ 32B
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
#223 by perf·no signal
QwQ 32B
#226 by perf·no signal
Best value
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
3.5x better value than QwQ 32B
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
127.8 pts/$
$0.11/M
QwQ 32B
37.0 pts/$
$0.36/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
7 benchmarks · 2 models
Llama 3.2 1B InstructQwQ 32B
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
QwQ 32B leads by +225.5
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
1110.2
QwQ 32B
1335.7
BBH (HuggingFace)
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct leads by +5.5
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
8.3
QwQ 32B
2.9
GPQA
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct leads by +1.0
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
2.4
QwQ 32B
1.3
IFEval
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct leads by +18.3
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
58.1
QwQ 32B
39.8
MATH Level 5
QwQ 32B leads by +7.9
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
8.2
QwQ 32B
16.1
MMLU-PRO
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct leads by +6.1
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
8.2
QwQ 32B
2.2
MUSR
QwQ 32B leads by +9.1
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
1.9
QwQ 32B
11.1
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | QwQ 32B |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1110.2 | 1335.7 |
BBH (HuggingFace) | 8.3 | 2.9 |
GPQA | 2.4 | 1.3 |
IFEval | 58.1 | 39.8 |
MATH Level 5 | 8.2 | 16.1 |
MMLU-PRO | 8.2 | 2.2 |
MUSR | 1.9 | 11.1 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.03 | $0.20 | 60K tokens (~30 books) | $0.70 | |
| $0.15 | $0.58 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $2.57 |