Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Codestral
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Meta
Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Codestral in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.6 to 27.3.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Codestral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 30.6 |
| Released | — | 2024-05-29 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Codestral: 27.3 (#321)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | 41.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | 52.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | 73.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 11.1% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.9% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Codestral: 19.8 (#251)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Codestral?
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Codestral better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Codestral share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.