Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Llama 3.2 1B

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

20.1

Rank #354 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 31.0 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 37.1% for Codellama 34b Instruct and 11.3% for Llama 3.2 1B.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.2 1B specifications
Codellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index30.820.1
Released—2024-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked1422

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
BigCodeBench Instruct29%8.2%
LMArena Coding10461070
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%11.3%
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10.8%
BALROG—6.6%

Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Hard Prompts10321044
Chess Puzzles—0%
Epoch Capabilities Index—101.99

Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Math10561086
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
GPQA Diamond—23.9%
LMArena Expert—1007

Multilingual Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English1011973
LMArena Chinese976959
LMArena German—1014
LMArena Russian—941

Instruction Following Too close to call

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following10281031

Long Context Llama 3.2 1B leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query10131050

Writing & Preference Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text10661055
LMArena Creative Writing10321033
LMArena Multi-Turn10151030
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—200

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.5 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Llama 3.2 1B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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