Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Llama 4 Scout

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.3

Rank #236 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.4

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.0 to 19.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 49.6% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 43.1% for Llama 4 Scout.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Llama 4 Scout specifications
Codellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index33.327.4
Released—2025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked743

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.0 (#189), Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%43.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1286
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 19.2 (#241), Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts10521266
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
DTBench—57.9%
LMCA—12%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.64
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.8%
Omni-MATH—37.3%
LMArena Math—1286
MATH Level 5—62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond—51.8%
MMLU-Pro—74.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.7%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1236

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision—1118
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Llama 4 Scout leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.9 (#283), Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English9921253
LMArena Chinese—1256
LMArena French—1283
LMArena German—1274
LMArena Japanese—1209
LMArena Korean—1207
LMArena Russian—1263
LMArena Spanish—1277

Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 52.1 (#288), Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Instruction Following10241248
IFEval—81.8%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
Fiction.LiveBench—36%
LMArena Longer Query—1265

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Scout leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.6 (#272), Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Text10571279
LMArena Creative Writing—1249
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
WildBench—78%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1281

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Llama 4 Scout?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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