# Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Codellama 34b Instruct

> Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-sonnet-vs-codellama-34b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Codellama 34b Instruct in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 53.0 to 28.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 58.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 34.4 | 30.2 |
| Rank | 225 | 285 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | 29% |
| LMArena Coding | 1343 | 1046 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | 37.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | 43.9% |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | 56.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1032 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1306 | 1056 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1264 | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1011 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1271 | 976 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1289 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1028 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1014 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1066 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1032 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1015 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |

## FAQ

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 28.0 in the Noometry coding category.

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

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.