Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Codestral

Codellama 34b Instruct and Codestral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Codestral in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 52.5% for Codestral.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Codestral specifications
Codellama 34b InstructCodestral
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index30.830.6
Released—2024-05-29
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—256K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$0.90
Results tracked147

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Codestral: 27.3 (#321)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCodestral
BigCodeBench Instruct29%41.8%
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%52.5%
HumanEval+43.9%73.8%
MBPP+56.3%61.9%
Aider Polyglot—11.1%
LMArena Coding1046—
ALE-Bench—137.78

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Codestral: 19.8 (#251)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCodestral
Kagi LLM Benchmark—32.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts1032—

Math Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Codestral: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCodestral
LMArena Math1056—

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Codestral: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCodestral
LMArena Non-English1011—
LMArena Chinese976—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Codestral: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCodestral
LMArena Instruction Following1028—

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Codestral: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCodestral
LMArena Longer Query1013—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Codestral: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructCodestral
LMArena Text1066—
LMArena Creative Writing1032—
LMArena Multi-Turn1015—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Codestral?

Codellama 34b Instruct and Codestral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Codestral better for coding?

Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.5 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Codestral share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.

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