Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 29.0 to 20.1.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.738.8
Released—2026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked713

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—326.4
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.26

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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