Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs GPT-4 Turbo
Codellama 34b Instruct and GPT-4 Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 9.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 58.2% for GPT-4 Turbo.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.5 |
| Released | — | 2023-11-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $30 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 48.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1268 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 58.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | 86.6% |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | 73.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 18% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.7% |
Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1251 |
| SimpleBench | — | 25.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| DTBench | — | 61.6% |
| LMCA | — | 9.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.25 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.4 |
Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1272 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.6% |
| Confabulations | — | 28.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1223 |
| MMLU | — | 81.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1090 |
Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1276 |
| LMArena German | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1194 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1260 |
Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1249 |
Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1254 |
Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1272 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1267 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than GPT-4 Turbo?
Codellama 34b Instruct and GPT-4 Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?
GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and GPT-4 Turbo share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.