Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)
Codellama 70b Instruct and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads 43.1 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-08-13 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 46.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1287 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1272 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 54.8% |
| DTBench | — | 65.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 54.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 130.48 |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 11.5% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 54.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 53.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1254 |
Multilingual Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1282 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1289 |
| LMArena French | — | 1318 |
| LMArena German | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1237 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1281 |
Instruction Following Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.6% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1276 |
Writing & Preference Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1305 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1284 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 63.6% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1290 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 45.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.