# Codellama 70b Instruct vs Granite 4.0 Micro

> Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-70b-instruct-vs-granite-4-0-micro
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 51.9.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 29.0 |
| Rank | 237 | 318 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.017 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |

## Math

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 20.9% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.7% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 84.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67% |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.