Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek

42.3

Rank #115 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek-R1 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where DeepSeek-R1 leads 61.4 to 28.2.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and DeepSeek-R1 specifications
Codellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
ProviderMetaDeepSeek
Noometry Index30.842.3
Released—2025-01-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—164K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2.15
Results tracked1452

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), DeepSeek-R1: 46.3 (#68)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Coding10461427
Aider Polyglot—71.4%
SciCode—35.7%
WeirdML—41.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
LiveBench Coding—66.7%
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
ALE-Bench—804.12
AlgoTune—1.7
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, DeepSeek-R1: 30.7 (#75)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
DeepResearch Bench—35.1%
BALROG—34.9%
METR Time Horizons—53.8%

Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), DeepSeek-R1: 18.6 (#278)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Hard Prompts10321416
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—40.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—21.2%
CritPt—1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.29
ForecastBench—60
LiveBench—71.6%

Math DeepSeek-R1 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), DeepSeek-R1: 43.8 (#79)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Math10561400
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
Omni-MATH—42.4%
LiveBench Math—80.7%
MATH Level 5—96.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, DeepSeek-R1: 44.5 (#87)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
GPQA Diamond—76.3%
MMLU-Pro—79.3%
Confabulations—12.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.3%
GPQA (HELM)—66.6%
LMArena Expert—1394

Multilingual DeepSeek-R1 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), DeepSeek-R1: 52.4 (#85)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Non-English10111412
LMArena Chinese9761442
LMArena French—1417
LMArena German—1404
LMArena Japanese—1391
LMArena Korean—1360
LMArena Russian—1423
LMArena Spanish—1411

Instruction Following DeepSeek-R1 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), DeepSeek-R1: 72.0 (#143)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Instruction Following10281382
LiveBench Instruction Following—80.5%
IFEval—78.4%

Long Context DeepSeek-R1 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Longer Query10131391
Fiction.LiveBench—75%

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), DeepSeek-R1: 61.4 (#88)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Text10661428
LMArena Creative Writing10321405
LMArena Multi-Turn10151405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1500
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—48.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than DeepSeek-R1?

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or DeepSeek-R1 better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and DeepSeek-R1 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1 has 52.

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