Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Codellama 70b Instruct

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 20.1.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Codellama 70b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index67.833.7
Released2026-07-24—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked577

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.7%
LMArena Coding1534—
BigCodeBench Complete—49.6%
ALE-Bench2,165—
HumanEval+—65.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15261052
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—
LMArena Math1531—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
LMArena Expert1557—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1501992
LMArena Chinese1574—
LMArena French1519—
LMArena German1524—
LMArena Japanese1516—
LMArena Korean1521—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1519—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15171024

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1515—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Text15071057
LMArena Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—
LMArena Multi-Turn1499—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.

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