Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Llama 3.1-405B
Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 40.7 to 25.8.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1-405B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1291 |
| WeirdML | — | 21.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 7.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1269 |
| SimpleBench | — | 23% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 45% |
| DTBench | — | 61.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 82.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.75 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.9 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89.2% |
| PIQA | — | 85.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 89.2% |
Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | 1281 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 9.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 49.8% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 50.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 52.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1243 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 95.3% |
| MMLU | — | 84.5% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.7% |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1248 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1279 |
| LMArena German | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1265 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1260 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1259 |
| IFEval | — | 81.1% |
Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-405B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1284 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1262 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1297 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 870 |
| WildBench | — | 78.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Llama 3.1-405B?
Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?
Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.1-405B share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.