Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Sonar

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Sonar Perplexity

38.5

Rank #187 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Sonar leads 71.4 to 51.9.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Sonar specifications
Codellama 70b InstructSonar
ProviderMetaPerplexity
Noometry Index33.738.5
Released—2024-01-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked77

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructSonar
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LiveBench Coding—35.1%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Sonar leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructSonar
LiveBench Reasoning—46.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—
LiveBench Data Analysis—37.9%
LiveBench—46.9%

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Sonar: 33.7 (#200)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructSonar
LiveBench Math—41.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Sonar: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructSonar
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Sonar leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructSonar
LiveBench Instruction Following—76.2%
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Sonar leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructSonar
LMArena Text1057—
LiveBench Language—44.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Sonar?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Sonar better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.

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