Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 14B leads 37.3 to 28.5.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen3 14B specifications
Codellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.835.5
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked1412

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
LMArena Coding1046—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1032—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math1056—

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1011—
LMArena Chinese976—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1028—

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1013—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1066—
LMArena Creative Writing1032—
LMArena Multi-Turn1015—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen3 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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