# Codellama 34b Instruct vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1 leads 55.8 to 28.4.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 40.6 |
| Rank | 285 | 140 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310)
- o1: 45.7 (#64)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1367 |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | 80.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| CadEval | — | 56% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- o1: 24.3 (#111)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250)
- o1: 27.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1372 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.92 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227)
- o1: 34.9 (#150)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1388 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- o1: 41.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |

## Multimodal

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- o1: 33.6 (#87)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279)
- o1: 48.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | — | 1343 |
| LMArena German | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286)
- o1: 75.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1368 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1014 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292)
- o1: 55.8 (#139)

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1368 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 28.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and o1 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.