# Codellama 70b Instruct vs GPT-4

> Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-70b-instruct-vs-gpt-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4 leads 40.8 to 24.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 49.6% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 57.2% for GPT-4.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.3 | 28.9 |
| Rank | 236 | 308 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $30 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.0 (#189)
- GPT-4: 31.2 (#277)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | 46% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | 57.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | 79.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1254 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- GPT-4: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.1% |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 19.2 (#241)
- GPT-4: 17.3 (#285)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1241 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 62.7% |
| LMCA | — | 17.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 75.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.88 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.8 |
| HellaSwag | — | 95.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 87.5% |

## Math

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- GPT-4: 10.1 (#304)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 23% |
| GSM8K | — | 92% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- GPT-4: 18.4 (#277)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1211 |
| MMLU | — | 86.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.8% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.9 (#283)
- GPT-4: 40.8 (#210)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1246 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1282 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1261 |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 52.1 (#288)
- GPT-4: 65.5 (#217)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1241 |

## Long Context

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- GPT-4: 37.7 (#207)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1244 |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.6 (#272)
- GPT-4: 35.0 (#263)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1263 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1244 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 752 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1257 |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than GPT-4?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Codellama 70b Instruct or GPT-4 better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-4 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.