Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Llama 4 Maverick

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.7 to 51.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 49.6% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 61.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
Codellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index33.730.9
Released—2025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked754

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%61.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
LMArena Coding—1302
ALE-Bench—172.97
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Hard Prompts10521281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—132.2
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
LMArena Math—1299
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond—67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
LMArena Expert—1259

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English9921269
LMArena Chinese—1277
LMArena French—1259
LMArena German—1291
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203
LMArena Russian—1286
LMArena Spanish—1293

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following10241267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1280

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text10571287
LMArena Creative Writing—1267
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1289

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Llama 4 Maverick share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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