# Claude 2 vs Codellama 34b Instruct

> Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Codellama 34b Instruct in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 9.3.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 346 | 287 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | 43.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1046 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 37.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 56.3% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1032 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1056 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1011 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 976 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1028 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1013 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1066 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1015 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Codellama 34b Instruct?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Codellama 34b Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.