Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where o1 leads 48.6 to 24.8.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and o1 specifications
Codellama 70b Instructo1
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index33.740.9
Released—2024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked752

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
HumanEval+65.9%89%
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
LMArena Coding—1367
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
CadEval—56%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
LMArena Hard Prompts10521371
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
LiveBench—75.7%

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
LMArena Math—1388
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%
LMArena Expert—1361

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
LMArena Non-English9921358
LMArena Chinese—1394
LMArena French—1344
LMArena German—1337
LMArena Japanese—1346
LMArena Korean—1396
LMArena Russian—1356
LMArena Spanish—1345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
LMArena Instruction Following10241367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1378

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1
LMArena Text10571366
LMArena Creative Writing—1348
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1369
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and o1 share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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