Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs GPT-5.4 nano

GPT-5.4 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 nano OpenAI

41.9

Rank #125 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 nano in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-5.4 nano leads 48.6 to 24.8.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.4 nano specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index33.741.9
Released—2026-03-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.25
Results tracked740

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), GPT-5.4 nano: 43.6 (#84)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
SciCode—46.9%
WeirdML—49.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1405
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—1,005
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), GPT-5.4 nano: 23.7 (#173)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts10521381
ARC-AGI-2—5.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—39.7%
ARC-AGI-1—51.5%
CritPt—9.3%
Chess Puzzles—30%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—80.3%
LMCA—36.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.81
ForecastBench—57.3

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.4 nano: 40.9 (#88)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—44.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—87.8%
ProofBench—5%
LMArena Math—1406
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—25.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.4 nano: 41.9 (#103)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
GPQA Diamond—78.5%
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.1%
LMArena Expert—1396

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.4 nano: 36.7 (#78)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Vision—1196

Multilingual GPT-5.4 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), GPT-5.4 nano: 48.6 (#140)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Non-English9921359
LMArena Chinese—1392
LMArena French—1396
LMArena German—1367
LMArena Japanese—1343
LMArena Korean—1320
LMArena Russian—1363
LMArena Spanish—1371

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), GPT-5.4 nano: 71.9 (#144)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Instruction Following10241362

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.4 nano: 41.6 (#137)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Longer Query—1366

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), GPT-5.4 nano: 55.7 (#142)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.4 nano
LMArena Text10571372
LMArena Creative Writing—1314
LMArena Multi-Turn—1382

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than GPT-5.4 nano?

GPT-5.4 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or GPT-5.4 nano better for coding?

GPT-5.4 nano scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.4 nano share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 nano has 40.

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