Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Codellama 70b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.5 to 33.4.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Codellama 70b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.233.7
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked687

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.7%
LMArena Coding1536—
BigCodeBench Complete—49.6%
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—
HumanEval+—65.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15271052
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
LMArena Math1519—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1489992
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15231024

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Text15031057
LMArena Creative Writing1505—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1513—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.

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