Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen1.5-14B

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.3

Rank #236 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.1

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-14B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen1.5-14B leads 30.8 to 24.9.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-14B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.332.1
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked717

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.0 (#189), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.5 (#259)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1138
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 19.2 (#241), Qwen1.5-14B: 20.5 (#217)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts10521113

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-14B: 29.9 (#214)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math—1125

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-14B: 29.3 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert—1094
MMLU—68.6%

Multilingual Qwen1.5-14B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.9 (#283), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.8 (#257)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English9921095
LMArena Chinese—1147
LMArena French—1115
LMArena German—1043
LMArena Japanese—1019
LMArena Russian—1046
LMArena Spanish—1085

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-14B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 52.1 (#288), Qwen1.5-14B: 57.1 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following10241102

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#252)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query—1113

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.6 (#272), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text10571128
LMArena Creative Writing—1091
LMArena Multi-Turn—1110

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-14B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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