# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Codellama 34b Instruct

> Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-codellama-34b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 34b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 14.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 315 | 287 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | 29% |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1046 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | 37.1% |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 43.9% |
| MBPP+ | — | 56.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1032 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1056 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1011 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 976 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | — |
| LMArena German | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1028 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1013 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1066 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1032 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1015 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Codellama 34b Instruct?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Codellama 34b Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Codellama 34b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.