Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview

Codellama 70b Instruct and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview Amazon

33.4

Rank #244 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 40.8 to 37.6.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview specifications
Codellama 70b InstructNova 2.0 Pro Preview
ProviderMetaAmazon
Noometry Index33.733.4
Released—2025-12-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked73

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructNova 2.0 Pro Preview
SciCode—42.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructNova 2.0 Pro Preview
GDP.pdf—2%

Reasoning Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructNova 2.0 Pro Preview
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructNova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructNova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructNova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?

Codellama 70b Instruct and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.

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