Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 52.3 to 24.8.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 2.5 Flash specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
ProviderMetaGoogle
Noometry Index33.739.3
Released—2025-04-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$2.50
Results tracked754

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—28.7%
Aider Polyglot—55.1%
WeirdML—41.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1424
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—661.88
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
Terminal-Bench—17.1%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—56.2%
TheAgentCompany—41.1%
BALROG—33.5%
Vending-Bench 2—548.84

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts10521422
ARC-AGI-2—2.5%
SimpleBench—41.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—56.8%
ARC-AGI-1—33.3%
CritPt—1.1%
EnigmaEval—2.7%
DTBench—76.5%
LMCA—27.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.03
ForecastBench—60.6

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.1%
Omni-MATH—38.5%
LMArena Math—1415
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
Humanity's Last Exam—12.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.9%
Confabulations—16.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.8%
GPQA (HELM)—39%
LMArena Expert—1426

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Vision—1253
GeoBench—76%
VPCT—46.2%
SpatialViz-Bench—36.9%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Non-English9921409
LMArena Chinese—1450
LMArena French—1433
LMArena German—1418
LMArena Japanese—1405
LMArena Korean—1385
LMArena Russian—1415
LMArena Spanish—1421

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following10241405
IFEval—89.8%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1419

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Text10571417
LMArena Creative Writing—1400
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.5%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1137
WildBench—81.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1408

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemini 2.5 Flash better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 2.5 Flash share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54.

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