Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs GPT-4.1 mini
GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 73.7 to 52.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 29% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 48.9% for GPT-4.1 mini.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 33.6 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 47 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4.1 mini leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 48.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1367 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| SciCode | — | 40.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| CadEval | — | 16% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |
Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1349 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LMCA | — | 21.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.01 |
Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1343 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 44.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1338 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1181 |
Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1329 |
| LMArena French | — | 1358 |
| LMArena German | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1290 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1319 |
Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1333 |
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |
Long Context Too close to call
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1300 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1354 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than GPT-4.1 mini?
GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?
GPT-4.1 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.6 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and GPT-4.1 mini share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.