Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs o1-mini
Codellama 70b Instruct and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and o1-mini in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where o1-mini leads 43.6 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 34.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | 89% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1333 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1316 |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena French | — | 1293 |
| LMArena German | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1303 |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1320 |
Writing & Preference o1-mini leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1244 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than o1-mini?
Codellama 70b Instruct and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or o1-mini better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and o1-mini share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.