Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Codellama 70b Instruct

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

61.9

Rank #10 Confirmed

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 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 Sonnet 5.5 leads 54.0 to 20.1.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index61.933.7
Released2026-09-28—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked327

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.7%
LMArena Coding1513—
BigCodeBench Complete—49.6%
ALE-Bench1,819—
HumanEval+—65.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14951052
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%—
CritPt31.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
Epoch Capabilities Index165.03—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1510—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
LMArena Expert1540—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Vision1289—
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1452992
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena Russian1451—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14951024

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1498—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Text14711057
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
LMArena Multi-Turn1474—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.

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