# Codellama 34b Instruct vs DeepSeek Coder 33B

> Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#285); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-deepseek-coder-33b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek Coder 33B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 28.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 51.1% for DeepSeek Coder 33B.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 38.3 |
| Rank | 285 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 42% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 51.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | 75% |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | 70.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | — |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 95.74 |
| WinoGrande | — | 62% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 35.4% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.2% |
| MMLU | — | 39.4% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | — |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1014 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292)
- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than DeepSeek Coder 33B?

Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#285); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct or DeepSeek Coder 33B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 28.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and DeepSeek Coder 33B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9.