Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Mercury 2.5
Codellama 70b Instruct and Mercury 2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MetaSummary
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.5 |
| Released | — | 2026-09-08 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 260K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury 2.5 leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 38.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 301.65 |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Reasoning Mercury 2.5 leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Mercury 2.5?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Mercury 2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Mercury 2.5 better for coding?
Mercury 2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Mercury 2.5 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2.5 has 4.