Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemma 2 27B

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.4

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemma 2 27B leads 38.6 to 24.8.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemma 2 27B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
ProviderMetaGoogle
Noometry Index33.729.4
Released—2024-06-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—2K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.65
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked734

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%42.8%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%52.5%
LiveBench Coding—36%
LMArena Coding—1211
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts10521198
LiveBench Reasoning—28.1%
DTBench—48%
LiveBench Data Analysis—47.9%
LMCA—7.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.08
LiveBench—38.2%

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.4%
LiveBench Math—26.5%
LMArena Math—1212
MATH Level 5—27.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
GPQA Diamond—36.5%
Confabulations—27.1%
LMArena Expert—1172
MMLU—75.7%

Multilingual Gemma 2 27B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
LMArena Non-English9921217
LMArena Chinese—1221
LMArena French—1247
LMArena German—1209
LMArena Japanese—1175
LMArena Korean—1174
LMArena Russian—1234
LMArena Spanish—1228

Instruction Following Gemma 2 27B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
LMArena Instruction Following10241206
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.1%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
LMArena Longer Query—1231

Writing & Preference Gemma 2 27B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGemma 2 27B
LMArena Text10571231
LMArena Creative Writing—1241
LMArena Multi-Turn—1224
LiveBench Language—32.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemma 2 27B?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemma 2 27B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.

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