Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 42.9 to 24.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 49.6% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.2 |
| Released | — | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | 43.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | 75.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1261 |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1257 |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1233 |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
| MMLU | — | 77.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1295 |
| LMArena French | — | 1258 |
| LMArena German | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1243 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1258 |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1285 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1253 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.