Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen Max
Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Meta
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Max in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen Max leads 41.8 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 34.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6.40 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1288 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Max leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1269 |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
Multilingual Qwen Max leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1254 |
| LMArena French | — | 1330 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1290 |
Instruction Following Qwen Max leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1262 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1288 |
Writing & Preference Qwen Max leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1277 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen Max?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen Max better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen Max share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.