# Codellama 34b Instruct vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-gemini-2-0-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 52.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 59.9% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 35.1 |
| Rank | 287 | 228 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 45.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1350 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 59.9% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1346 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| DTBench | — | 63.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1352 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1339 |
| MMLU | — | 79.7% |

## Multimodal

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | — | 1391 |
| LMArena German | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1363 |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1340 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.5 vs 28.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.