Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Codellama 70b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 33.4.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Codellama 70b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index41.033.7
Released2025-08-05—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked487

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.7%
LMArena Coding1479—
BigCodeBench Complete—49.6%
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—
HumanEval+—65.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14431052
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
LMArena Math1431—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1405992
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14351024

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1455—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Text14191057
LMArena Creative Writing1412—
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.

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