Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 45.3 to 24.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 49.6% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 57.5% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ProviderMetaGoogle
Noometry Index33.732.1
Released—2024-02-15
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked745

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%43.8%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%57.5%
HumanEval+65.9%79.3%
WeirdML—22.2%
LMArena Coding—1294
CadEval—34%
MBPP+—74.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
TheAgentCompany—3.4%
Cybench—7.5%
BALROG—21%

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Hard Prompts10521296
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—27.1%
DTBench—59%
BIG-Bench Hard—89.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—131.73
ForecastBench—58.4

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—23.1%
Omni-MATH—36.4%
LMArena Math—1315
MATH Level 5—70.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond—57.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.6%
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—13.5%
GPQA (HELM)—53.4%
LMArena Expert—1279
MMLU—86.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Vision—1161
Video-MME—75%

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English9921312
LMArena Chinese—1331
LMArena French—1302
LMArena German—1286
LMArena Japanese—1292
LMArena Korean—1298
LMArena Russian—1320
LMArena Spanish—1311

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following10241297
IFEval—83.7%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Text10571319
LMArena Creative Writing—1333
WildBench—81.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1296

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.

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