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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Qwen3 32B

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Winner summary

Qwen3 32B wins 5 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · general · knowledge.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
#218 by perf·#18 by attention
QUIET
Qwen3 32B
#109 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.7x better value than Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
171.9 pts/$
$0.21/M
Qwen3 32B
286.1 pts/$
$0.18/M
Vendor risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.87T·Tier 1
Low risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Llama 3.3 70B InstructQwen3 32B
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Qwen3 32B leads by +29.1
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
1317.8
Qwen3 32B
1346.9
Dtbench
Qwen3 32B leads by +13.3
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
32.5
Qwen3 32B
45.8
Fiction.LiveBench
Qwen3 32B leads by +40.9
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
33.3
Qwen3 32B
74.2
GPQA diamond
Qwen3 32B leads by +24.4
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
29.9
Qwen3 32B
54.3
Lmca
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +0.3
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
20.6
Qwen3 32B
20.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Qwen3 32B leads by +61.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
5.0
Qwen3 32B
66.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkLlama 3.3 70B InstructQwen3 32B
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1317.81346.9
Dtbench
32.545.8
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
33.374.2
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
29.954.3
Lmca
20.620.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
5.066.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Meta logoLlama 3.3 70B Instruct$0.10$0.32131K tokens (~66 books)$1.55
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 32B$0.08$0.28131K tokens (~66 books)$1.30