Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 46.0 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 37.8 |
| Released | — | 2025-02-05 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1324 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 50.1% |
| DTBench | — | 52.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.4% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1309 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1305 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1100 |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1323 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1339 |
| LMArena French | — | 1347 |
| LMArena German | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1301 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1328 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1313 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1305 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 78.3% |
| IFEval | — | 82.4% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1320 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1330 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1319 |
| WildBench | — | 79% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1307 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 34.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (37.6 vs 37.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32.