# Claude 2.1 vs Codellama 34b Instruct

> Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-codellama-34b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 10.2.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 345 | 287 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1046 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 37.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 43.9% |
| MBPP+ | — | 56.3% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1032 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1056 |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1011 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 976 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1028 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1013 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1066 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1015 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Codellama 34b Instruct?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Codellama 34b Instruct better for coding?

Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.5 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Codellama 34b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.