# Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Codellama 70b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#236); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-70b-instruct-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.3 | — |
| Rank | 236 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.0 (#189)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 19.2 (#241)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.93 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 70b Instruct: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.9 (#283)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 52.1 (#288)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.6 (#272)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Codellama 70b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#236); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.