Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.3

Rank #236 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.7 to 19.2.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.5 specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index33.363.4
Released—2026-04-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked771

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.0 (#189), GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1512
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1494
MirrorCode—10%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—1,943
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 19.2 (#241), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
LMArena Hard Prompts10521489
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles—54%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—159.25
ForecastBench—60.6

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9)

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—63%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
LMArena Expert—1508

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision—1297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.9 (#283), GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English9921467
LMArena Chinese—1535
LMArena French—1486
LMArena German—1478
LMArena Japanese—1498
LMArena Korean—1461
LMArena Russian—1473
LMArena Spanish—1469

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 52.1 (#288), GPT-5.5: 77.7 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following10241479

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
CL-bench Life—22.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1484

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.6 (#272), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.5
LMArena Text10571471
LMArena Creative Writing—1455
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315
LMArena Multi-Turn—1477

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.3 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.5 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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