Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs o3

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o3 leads 63.5 to 28.2.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and o3 specifications
Codellama 34b Instructo3
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index30.847.5
Released—2025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked1463

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Coding10461408
SWE-bench Verified—62.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—58.4%
Aider Polyglot—81.3%
GSO—8.8%
WeirdML—52.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
CadEval—74%
ALE-Bench—933.55
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—30.8%
DeepResearch Bench—45.2%
OSWorld—23%
LMArena Search—1144
METR Time Horizons—65.4%

Reasoning o3 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Hard Prompts10321402
ARC-AGI-2—6.5%
SimpleBench—53.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—60.8%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—38%
EnigmaEval—13.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
DTBench—84.8%
LMCA—39.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.86
ForecastBench—62.5

Math o3 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), o3: 50.2 (#58)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Math10561426
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
Omni-MATH—71.4%
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—18.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
GPQA Diamond—81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—20.3%
SimpleQA Verified—49.4%
MMLU-Pro—85.9%
Confabulations—14.4%
GPQA (HELM)—75.3%
LMArena Expert—1402

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Vision—1214
GeoBench—74%
VPCT—52%

Multilingual o3 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Non-English10111401
LMArena Chinese9761437
LMArena French—1430
LMArena German—1420
LMArena Japanese—1403
LMArena Korean—1370
LMArena Russian—1406
LMArena Spanish—1395

Instruction Following o3 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Instruction Following10281368
IFEval—86.9%

Long Context o3 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Longer Query10131372
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%
CL-bench—17.8%

Writing & Preference o3 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b Instructo3
LMArena Text10661410
LMArena Creative Writing10321359
LMArena Multi-Turn10151405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1676
WildBench—86.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or o3 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and o3 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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