Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Phi-4

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Phi-4 leads 37.2 to 24.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 49.6% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 55.4% for Phi-4.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Phi-4 specifications
Codellama 70b InstructPhi-4
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.731.2
Released—2024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked737

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%45.5%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%55.4%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
LMArena Coding—1231
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts10521220
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.42
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
LMArena Math—1246
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Non-English9921197
LMArena Chinese—1212
LMArena French—1224
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Russian—1209
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following10241201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Text10571217
LMArena Creative Writing—1182
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1206
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Phi-4?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Phi-4 better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Phi-4 share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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