Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Sonar

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Sonar Perplexity

38.5

Rank #187 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Sonar leads 52.6 to 28.2.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Sonar specifications
Codellama 34b InstructSonar
ProviderMetaPerplexity
Noometry Index30.838.5
Released—2024-01-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked147

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Category by category

Coding Sonar leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructSonar
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
LiveBench Coding—35.1%
LMArena Coding1046—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Reasoning Sonar leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructSonar
LiveBench Reasoning—46.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1032—
LiveBench Data Analysis—37.9%
LiveBench—46.9%

Math Sonar leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructSonar
LiveBench Math—41.6%
LMArena Math1056—

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Sonar: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructSonar
LMArena Non-English1011—
LMArena Chinese976—

Instruction Following Sonar leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructSonar
LiveBench Instruction Following—76.2%
LMArena Instruction Following1028—

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Sonar: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructSonar
LMArena Longer Query1013—

Writing & Preference Sonar leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructSonar
LMArena Text1066—
LMArena Creative Writing1032—
LMArena Multi-Turn1015—
LiveBench Language—44.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Sonar?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Sonar better for coding?

Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.

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