Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Codellama 70b Instruct

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 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 leads 61.2 to 33.4.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Codellama 70b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index43.133.7
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked567

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.7%
LMArena Coding1442—
BigCodeBench Complete—49.6%
AlgoTune1.33—
HumanEval+—65.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13991052
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LMArena Math1390—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
LMArena Expert1386—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1362992
LMArena Chinese1386—
LMArena French1372—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Korean1321—
LMArena Russian1392—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14061024
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1422—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Text13771057
LMArena Creative Writing1387—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1396—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.

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