Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Meta
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.8 to 20.1.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 42.9 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.78 |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.7% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.