Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs o1-mini

Codellama 70b Instruct and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and o1-mini in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where o1-mini leads 43.6 to 24.8.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and o1-mini specifications
Codellama 70b Instructo1-mini
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index33.734.0
Released—2024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked739

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
HumanEval+65.9%89%
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
WeirdML—36.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
LMArena Coding—1362
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
Cybench—10%

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
LMArena Hard Prompts10521333
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—18.1%
ARC-AGI-1—14%
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.82
LiveBench—57.8%

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—46.9%
LiveBench Math—62%
LMArena Math—1358
MATH Level 5—89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
GPQA Diamond—62.4%
Confabulations—18.6%
LMArena Expert—1316

Multilingual o1-mini leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
LMArena Non-English9921289
LMArena Chinese—1314
LMArena French—1293
LMArena German—1278
LMArena Japanese—1245
LMArena Korean—1223
LMArena Russian—1283
LMArena Spanish—1303

Instruction Following o1-mini leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following10241304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query—1320

Writing & Preference o1-mini leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b Instructo1-mini
LMArena Text10571317
LMArena Creative Writing—1244
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than o1-mini?

Codellama 70b Instruct and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or o1-mini better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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