Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Codestral

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Codestral in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.6 to 27.3.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Codestral specifications
Codellama 70b InstructCodestral
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index33.730.6
Released—2024-05-29
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—256K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$0.90
Results tracked77

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Codestral: 27.3 (#321)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructCodestral
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%41.8%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%52.5%
HumanEval+65.9%73.8%
Aider Polyglot—11.1%
ALE-Bench—137.78
MBPP+—61.9%

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Codestral: 19.8 (#251)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructCodestral
Kagi LLM Benchmark—32.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Codestral: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructCodestral
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Codestral: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructCodestral
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Codestral: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructCodestral
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Codestral?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Codestral better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Codestral share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.

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