Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Codellama 34b Instruct

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Codellama 34b Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.030.8
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3014

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%29%
LMArena Coding12231046
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%37.1%
HumanEval+64%43.9%
MBPP+69.3%56.3%
WeirdML10.2%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11971032
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Math12131056
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
LMArena Expert1173—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12051011
LMArena Chinese1189976
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11991028

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12111013

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCodellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Text12181066
LMArena Creative Writing11861032
LMArena Multi-Turn12271015

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Codellama 34b Instruct?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.

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