Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 28.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) specifications
Codellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
ProviderMetaGoogle
Noometry Index30.833.2
Released—2024-05-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1442

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
BigCodeBench Instruct29%43.5%
LMArena Coding10461261
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%55.1%
HumanEval+43.9%75.6%
MBPP+56.3%67.5%
WeirdML—24.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
BALROG—14.6%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Hard Prompts10321257
DTBench—53.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.36
ForecastBench—53.9
PIQA—87.5%

Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Math10561269
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—16.3%
Omni-MATH—30.4%
MATH Level 5—61.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%
GSM8K—82.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond—47.3%
MMLU-Pro—67.8%
GPQA (HELM)—43.7%
LMArena Expert—1233
BoolQ—85.8%
MMLU—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Vision—1141
Video-MME—70.3%
GeoBench—76%

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English10111278
LMArena Chinese9761295
LMArena French—1258
LMArena German—1262
LMArena Japanese—1252
LMArena Korean—1221
LMArena Russian—1288
LMArena Spanish—1243

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following10281258
IFEval—83.1%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query10131284

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Text10661287
LMArena Creative Writing10321285
LMArena Multi-Turn10151253
WildBench—79.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.

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