Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Codellama 34b Instruct

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 34b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 28.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Codellama 34b Instruct specifications
Claude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.530.8
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4614

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%29%
LMArena Coding12641046
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%37.1%
HumanEval+77.4%43.9%
MBPP+73.3%56.3%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12451032
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Math12731056
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12581011
LMArena Chinese1248976
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12481028
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12591013

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Text12621066
LMArena Creative Writing12351032
LMArena Multi-Turn12751015
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Codellama 34b Instruct?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Codellama 34b Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Codellama 34b Instruct share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.

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