Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Llama 3.1-70B
Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3.1-70B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 28.5 to 12.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 54.8% for Llama 3.1-70B.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 29.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1-70B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310), Llama 3.1-70B: 29.8 (#292)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 46.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1260 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 54.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 24.9 (#104)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250), Llama 3.1-70B: 20.8 (#215)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1241 |
| DTBench | — | 60% |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.91 |
Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227), Llama 3.1-70B: 12.7 (#298)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1252 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 21% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 24.1 (#264)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 44.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1209 |
| MMLU | — | 80.1% |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-70B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279), Llama 3.1-70B: 38.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1215 |
| LMArena French | — | 1260 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1253 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-70B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286), Llama 3.1-70B: 65.5 (#218)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1231 |
| IFEval | — | 82.1% |
Long Context Llama 3.1-70B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279), Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#208)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1014 | 1241 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-70B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292), Llama 3.1-70B: 35.6 (#262)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1232 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1256 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| WildBench | — | 75.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Llama 3.1-70B?
Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?
Llama 3.1-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.8 versus 28.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.1-70B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.