Noometry

Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Grok 4.3

Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Grok 4.3 xAI

43.8

Rank #86 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.3 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Grok 4.3 leads 50.5 to 24.8.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
ProviderMetaxAI
Noometry Index33.743.8
Released—2026-04-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—30K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2.50
Results tracked740

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.3 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Grok 4.3: 41.6 (#121)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
LMArena WebDev—1357
SciCode—47.3%
WeirdML—49.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1415
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—944.17
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok 4.3: 27.7 (#99)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
GDP.pdf—8%
LMArena Search—1165
Vending-Bench 2—35.26

Reasoning Grok 4.3 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Grok 4.3: 35.9 (#68)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
LMArena Hard Prompts10521396
NYT Connections (extended)—55.2%
CritPt—8%
Chess Puzzles—25%
DTBench—90.7%
LMCA—38.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—149.16
ForecastBench—60.3

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok 4.3: 46.0 (#74)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—42.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—14.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—93.3%
ProofBench—11%
LMArena Math—1388

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok 4.3: 52.5 (#62)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
GPQA Diamond—88.8%
SimpleQA Verified—33.2%
LMArena Expert—1385

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok 4.3: 31.6 (#104)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
LMArena Vision—1229
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%

Multilingual Grok 4.3 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Grok 4.3: 50.5 (#120)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
LMArena Non-English9921385
LMArena Chinese—1422
LMArena French—1412
LMArena German—1395
LMArena Japanese—1379
LMArena Korean—1356
LMArena Russian—1399
LMArena Spanish—1398

Instruction Following Grok 4.3 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Grok 4.3: 72.1 (#140)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
LMArena Instruction Following10241366

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok 4.3: 42.5 (#123)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
LMArena Longer Query—1393

Writing & Preference Grok 4.3 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Grok 4.3: 58.5 (#118)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGrok 4.3
LMArena Text10571397
LMArena Creative Writing—1380
EQ-Bench 4—1075
LMArena Multi-Turn—1406

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Grok 4.3?

Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Grok 4.3 better for coding?

Grok 4.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.6 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Grok 4.3 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.3 has 40.

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