# Codellama 34b Instruct vs GPT-4

> Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-gpt-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 13

## Summary

- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 10.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 57.2% for GPT-4.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 287 | 316 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $30 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)
- GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | 46% |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1254 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 57.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | 79.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 12.4% |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- GPT-4: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.1% |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)
- GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1241 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 62.7% |
| LMCA | — | 17.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 75.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.89 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.8 |
| HellaSwag | — | 95.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 87.5% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)
- GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 23% |
| GSM8K | — | 92% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1211 |
| MMLU | — | 86.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.8% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)
- GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1246 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1283 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1261 |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)
- GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1241 |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)
- GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1244 |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)
- GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1263 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1257 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 752 |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than GPT-4?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct or GPT-4 better for coding?

GPT-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.6 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and GPT-4 share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.