Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 51.9.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Granite 4.0 Micro specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderMetaIBM
Noometry Index33.729.0
Released—2025-10-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.017
Output $ / M tokens—$0.11
Results tracked78

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.8%
Omni-MATH—20.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond—28.3%
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1057—
WildBench—67%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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