Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 47.4 to 24.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 49.6% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 59.9% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 35.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | 45.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | 59.9% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1350 |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1346 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| DTBench | — | 63.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1352 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1339 |
| MMLU | — | 79.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1373 |
| LMArena French | — | 1391 |
| LMArena German | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1363 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1344 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.