# Codellama 70b Instruct vs Mercury 2.5

> Codellama 70b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#236); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-70b-instruct-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 33.3 | 30.2 |
| Rank | 236 | — |
| Context | — | 260K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.0 (#189)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 301.65 |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 19.2 (#241)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |

## Math

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- Mercury 2.5: 22.4

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 3% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.9 (#283)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 52.1 (#288)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.6 (#272)
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Mercury 2.5?

Codellama 70b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#236); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Mercury 2.5 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2.5 has 2.