# Codellama 34b Instruct vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

> Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-gemini-2-5-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Pro in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 63.9 to 28.4.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 44.9 |
| Rank | 285 | 67 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $10 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1452 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 57.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 53.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 83.1% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1227 |
| SciCode | — | 42.8% |
| GSO | — | 3.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 54% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 85.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| CadEval | — | 64% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.52 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.51 |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 32.6% |
| GDPval | — | 23.3% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 0.8% |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 30.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 13.7% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 42.8% |
| BALROG | — | 43.3% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 55.4% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 573.64 |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#85)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1455 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 62.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 70.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 41% |
| CritPt | — | 2% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.8% |
| DTBench | — | 82.4% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 79.9% |
| LMCA | — | 34.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.32 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 82.3% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1450 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 24.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 41.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 90.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 95.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 14.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 85.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 21.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 86.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 74.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1452 |

## Multimodal

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1263 |
| GeoBench | — | 86% |
| VPCT | — | 48% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1421 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 44.7% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1452 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1507 |
| LMArena French | — | 1473 |
| LMArena German | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1462 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1460 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1473 |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1436 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 80.6% |
| IFEval | — | 84% |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1014 | 1449 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 91.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1458 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1453 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1453 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1421 |
| WildBench | — | 85.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 67.8% |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Gemini 2.5 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.8 versus 28.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 2.5 Pro share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78.
