# Codellama 34b Instruct vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-gemini-1-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 28.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 33.2 |
| Rank | 287 | 246 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1261 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | 67.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1257 |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1233 |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
| MMLU | — | 77.9% |

## Multimodal

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | — | 1258 |
| LMArena German | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1243 |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1258 |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1284 |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1253 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.