# Codellama 34b Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#287); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | — |
| Rank | 287 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | — |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#287); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.