Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs gpt-oss-20b
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and gpt-oss-20b in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where gpt-oss-20b leads 42.2 to 24.8.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 32.5 |
| Released | — | 2025-08-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.018 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.09 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 34.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 40.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1306 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 566.05 |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 3.4% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1274 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 53.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| DTBench | — | 68% |
| LMCA | — | 14.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.82 |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 65.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 56.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1317 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 60.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 59.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1258 |
Multilingual gpt-oss-20b leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena German | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1267 |
Instruction Following gpt-oss-20b leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1236 |
| IFEval | — | 73.2% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1250 |
Writing & Preference gpt-oss-20b leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1201 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 666 |
| WildBench | — | 73.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1268 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than gpt-oss-20b?
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or gpt-oss-20b better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (37.6 vs 37.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and gpt-oss-20b share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.