# Claude Instant vs Codellama 70b Instruct

> Codellama 70b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#237); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-codellama-70b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.7 |
| Rank | — | 237 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 65.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 49.6% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1052 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 992 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1024 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1057 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Codellama 70b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#237); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.