Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs MiniMax-M2.7

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax

37.7

Rank #196 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.7 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 50.3 to 24.8.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and MiniMax-M2.7 specifications
Codellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
ProviderMetaMiniMax
Noometry Index33.737.7
Released—2026-03-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked730

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena WebDev—1398
SciCode—47%
WeirdML—37%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1454
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—599.25
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench—45.1%
ExploitBench—13.3%
GBAEval—0%

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Hard Prompts10521422
NYT Connections (extended)—24.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Thematic Generalization—39.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.85

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
ProofBench—3%
LMArena Math—1420

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%
LMArena Expert—1444

Multilingual MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Non-English9921382
LMArena Chinese—1441
LMArena French—1421
LMArena German—1398
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1313
LMArena Russian—1383
LMArena Spanish—1403

Instruction Following MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Instruction Following10241405

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Longer Query—1419

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M2.7 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMiniMax-M2.7
LMArena Text10571405
LMArena Creative Writing—1354
LMArena Multi-Turn—1412

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.

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