Noometry

Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 62.2 to 28.2.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.847.5
Released—2026-03-31
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked1437

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Coding10461467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
LMArena WebDev—1461
SciCode—40.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
ALE-Bench—670.15
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts10321449
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
CritPt—2.9%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—81.9%
LMCA—33.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—147.65

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Math10561450
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—93.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—8.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond—88.4%
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
LMArena Expert—1454

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English10111424
LMArena Chinese9761477
LMArena French—1455
LMArena German—1452
LMArena Japanese—1389
LMArena Korean—1379
LMArena Russian—1434
LMArena Spanish—1432

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following10281425

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query10131439
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text10661437
LMArena Creative Writing10321404
LMArena Multi-Turn10151438

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Plus share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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