Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 28.2.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 37.0 |
| Released | — | 2025-06-17 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1373 |
| WeirdML | — | 35.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 325.9 |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 36.9% |
Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1377 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.5% |
| DTBench | — | 62.8% |
| LMCA | — | 18.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 133.94 |
Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1373 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 48% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1373 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1198 |
| VPCT | — | 30% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1369 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1404 |
| LMArena French | — | 1388 |
| LMArena German | — | 1389 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1359 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1360 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1373 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1396 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1367 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1373 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 47.2% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1379 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1367 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1366 |
| WildBench | — | 81.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.