Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemma 2 2b IT
Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemma 2 2b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2 2b IT in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemma 2 2b IT leads 32.3 to 24.8.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.1 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#273)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1112 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemma 2 2b IT: 21.4 (#224)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1113 |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.6 (#212)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1135 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.9 (#231)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1096 |
Multilingual Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#257)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1121 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1132 |
| LMArena French | — | 1157 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1055 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1118 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1140 |
Instruction Following Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemma 2 2b IT: 57.8 (#263)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1118 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1130 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 2 2b IT leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.5 (#263)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemma 2 2b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1156 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1118 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemma 2 2b IT?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemma 2 2b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemma 2 2b IT better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemma 2 2b IT share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 2b IT has 17.