Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Meta
GoogleSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 52.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 59.9% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 35.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 54 |
Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry
Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 45.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1350 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 59.9% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1346 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| DTBench | — | 63.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1352 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1339 |
| MMLU | — | 79.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | — | 1391 |
| LMArena German | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1363 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1340 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (28.5 vs 28.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.