Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs GPT-4.1 nano

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.1 nano leads 41.6 to 24.8.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index33.727.9
Released—2025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked738

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1306
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts10521286
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.62

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
LMArena Math—1274
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond—48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1272

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual GPT-4.1 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English9921260
LMArena Chinese—1270
LMArena German—1288
LMArena Japanese—1198
LMArena Russian—1261

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Instruction Following10241267
IFEval—84.3%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
Fiction.LiveBench—25%
LMArena Longer Query—1283

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 nano leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text10571285
LMArena Creative Writing—1260
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1277

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than GPT-4.1 nano?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-4.1 nano share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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