Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs GLM-4.6

GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

GLM-4.6 Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.4

Rank #135 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.6 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6 leads 61.1 to 28.2.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and GLM-4.6 specifications
Codellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
ProviderMetaZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index30.841.4
Released—2025-09-30
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked1429

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), GLM-4.6: 40.1 (#148)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
LMArena Coding10461449
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1340
SciCode—38.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
ALE-Bench—340.82
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GLM-4.6: 32.3 (#66)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
Terminal-Bench—24.5%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.4%

Reasoning GLM-4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), GLM-4.6: 23.7 (#172)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts10321440
Kagi LLM Benchmark—47.4%
CritPt—1.1%

Math GLM-4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), GLM-4.6: 39.1 (#111)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
LMArena Math10561432
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GLM-4.6: 40.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.5%
LMArena Expert—1431

Multilingual GLM-4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), GLM-4.6: 53.5 (#66)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
LMArena Non-English10111426
LMArena Chinese9761499
LMArena French—1459
LMArena German—1447
LMArena Japanese—1393
LMArena Korean—1400
LMArena Russian—1419
LMArena Spanish—1436

Instruction Following GLM-4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), GLM-4.6: 74.3 (#98)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
LMArena Instruction Following10281410

Long Context GLM-4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#94)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
LMArena Longer Query10131422

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), GLM-4.6: 61.1 (#90)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGLM-4.6
LMArena Text10661440
LMArena Creative Writing10321411
LMArena Multi-Turn10151427
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1411

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than GLM-4.6?

GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or GLM-4.6 better for coding?

GLM-4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and GLM-4.6 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.

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