Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Command R

Codellama 34b Instruct and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Command R Cohere

31.4

Rank #272 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Command R in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Command R leads 35.7 to 25.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 45.2% for Command R.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Command R specifications
Codellama 34b InstructCommand R
ProviderMetaCohere
Noometry Index30.831.4
Released—2024-08-30
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked1429

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Command R: 29.3 (#306)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
BigCodeBench Instruct29%37.1%
LMArena Coding10461169
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%45.2%
LiveBench Coding—17.9%
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Command R: 13.8 (#331)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
LMArena Hard Prompts10321164
LiveBench Reasoning—21.9%
DTBench—46.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis—33.3%
LMCA—9.2%
LiveBench—27.5%

Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Command R: 28.0 (#246)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
LMArena Math10561155
LiveBench Math—19.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Command R: 31.0 (#221)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
LMArena Expert—1138
MMLU—65.2%

Multilingual Command R leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Command R: 35.7 (#245)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
LMArena Non-English10111174
LMArena Chinese9761182
LMArena French—1162
LMArena German—1176
LMArena Japanese—1143
LMArena Korean—1163
LMArena Russian—1174
LMArena Spanish—1151

Instruction Following Command R leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Command R: 58.1 (#261)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
LMArena Instruction Following10281167
LiveBench Instruction Following—55.6%

Long Context Command R leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Command R: 36.3 (#231)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
LMArena Longer Query10131198

Writing & Preference Command R leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Command R: 38.2 (#254)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCommand R
LMArena Text10661187
LMArena Creative Writing10321170
LMArena Multi-Turn10151163
LiveBench Language—16.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Command R?

Codellama 34b Instruct and Command R score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Command R better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.5 vs 29.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Command R share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Command R has 29.

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