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Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.6 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.6 leads 61.4 to 19.6.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
ProviderMetaxAI
Noometry Index30.856.9
Released—2026-08-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked1449

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Coding10461465
DeepSWE—67.5%
FrontierCode—48%
CursorBench—41.4%
LMArena WebDev—1617
FrontierSWE—25.3%
SciCode—56.5%
WeirdML—67.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
ALE-Bench—1,508
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
APEX-Agents—65.3%
GDP.pdf—17.2%
Vending-Bench 2—9,047

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts10321447
ARC-AGI-2—67.1%
SimpleBench—75.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—80%
ARC-AGI-1—87.5%
CritPt—19.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
EBR-Bench—30.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
DTBench—97.3%
LMCA—48.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.44

Math Grok 4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Math10561423
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—66%
FrontierMath Tier 4—31.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—99.2%
ProofBench—51%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—49.3%
LMArena Expert—1467

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Vision—1263
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.2%
Furniture Assembly—40%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Grok 4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Non-English10111420
LMArena Chinese9761480
LMArena French—1461
LMArena German—1431
LMArena Japanese—1376
LMArena Korean—1397
LMArena Russian—1422
LMArena Spanish—1404

Instruction Following Grok 4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following10281431

Long Context Grok 4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Longer Query10131454

Writing & Preference Grok 4.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGrok 4.6
LMArena Text10661428
LMArena Creative Writing10321428
LMArena Multi-Turn10151425

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Grok 4.6 better for coding?

Grok 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.5 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Grok 4.6 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.6 has 49.

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