Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI

54.6

Rank #30 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Luna in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.6 Luna leads 68.0 to 33.4.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.6 Luna specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index33.754.6
Released—2026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked752

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), GPT-5.6 Luna: 54.5 (#28)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
DeepSWE—67.2%
FrontierCode—39.8%
CursorBench—35.9%
LMArena WebDev—1519
SciCode—53.6%
WeirdML—60.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1466
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—1,667
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 34.4 (#45)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
APEX-Agents—43%
BALROG—45.6%
GDP.pdf—22.7%
Vending-Bench 2—4,095

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.6 (#43)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Hard Prompts10521451
ARC-AGI-2—59.5%
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—88%
CritPt—20.6%
Chess Puzzles—40%
Mystery Game Puzzles—21%
DTBench—89.1%
LMCA—48.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—61.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.39

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.7 (#14)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—82.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—61%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.3%
ProofBench—60%
LMArena Math—1458

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.5 (#34)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
GPQA Diamond—91.6%
SimpleQA Verified—41%
LMArena Expert—1478

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 42.7 (#28)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Vision—1258
Blueprint-Bench 2—22.6%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1457

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), GPT-5.6 Luna: 52.8 (#78)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Non-English9921417
LMArena Chinese—1470
LMArena French—1456
LMArena German—1454
LMArena Japanese—1411
LMArena Korean—1415
LMArena Russian—1428
LMArena Spanish—1448

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), GPT-5.6 Luna: 75.6 (#57)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Instruction Following10241437

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#82)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Longer Query—1436

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.0 (#29)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Text10571431
LMArena Creative Writing—1396
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1829
EQ-Bench 4—1156
LMArena Multi-Turn—1434

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than GPT-5.6 Luna?

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or GPT-5.6 Luna better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Luna scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.5 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.6 Luna share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Luna has 52.

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