Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Codellama 34b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Codellama 34b Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 68.1 to 28.2.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Codellama 34b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index50.530.8
Released2025-11-01—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6914

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Coding15041046
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—29%
BigCodeBench Complete—37.1%
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—
HumanEval+—43.9%
MBPP+—56.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14761032
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Math14631056
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
LMArena Expert1487—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Codellama 34b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14381011
LMArena Chinese1470976
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1449—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1424—
LMArena Russian1447—
LMArena Spanish1458—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14781028

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14801013
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Codellama 34b Instruct
LMArena Text14511066
LMArena Creative Writing14451032
LMArena Multi-Turn14661015
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Codellama 34b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Codellama 34b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Codellama 34b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.

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