Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs GPT-5.1

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.1 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-5.1 leads 83.9 to 51.9.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.1 specifications
Codellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index33.749.0
Released—2025-11-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked763

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
SWE-bench Verified—68%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—66%
LMArena WebDev—1395
SciCode—43.3%
GSO—13.7%
WeirdML—60.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LiveBench Coding—72.5%
LMArena Coding—1454
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—1,192
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
Terminal-Bench—47.6%
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
LMArena Search—1199
Vending-Bench 2—1,473

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts10521457
ARC-AGI-2—17.6%
SimpleBench—53.2%
ARC-AGI-1—72.8%
CritPt—4.9%
Chess Puzzles—32%
EnigmaEval—11.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—95.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—90.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—72.1%
LMCA—43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—149.64
ForecastBench—58.1
LiveBench—78.8%

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.6%
Omni-MATH—46.4%
LiveBench Math—94.5%
LMArena Math—1447
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—31%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—12.5%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
GPQA Diamond—87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—23.7%
SimpleQA Verified—48%
MMLU-Pro—57.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.9%
GPQA (HELM)—44.2%
LMArena Expert—1470

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
LMArena Vision—1250
VPCT—58.7%
LMArena Document—1403

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
LMArena Non-English9921431
LMArena Chinese—1495
LMArena French—1450
LMArena German—1438
LMArena Japanese—1453
LMArena Korean—1401
LMArena Russian—1435
LMArena Spanish—1433

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
LMArena Instruction Following10241443
LiveBench Instruction Following—93.3%
IFEval—93.5%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
CL-bench—23.7%
CL-bench Life—17.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1447

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructGPT-5.1
LMArena Text10571443
LMArena Creative Writing—1427
WildBench—86.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1450
LiveBench Language—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than GPT-5.1?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or GPT-5.1 better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and GPT-5.1 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.1 has 63.

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