Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen1.5-110B

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-110B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen1.5-110B leads 33.6 to 24.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 40.7% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 35% for Qwen1.5-110B.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.734.2
Released—2024-04-25
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked720

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%35%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%44.4%
LMArena Coding—1184
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-110B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts10521168
ForecastBench—57.7

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math—1185

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert—1144

Multilingual Qwen1.5-110B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English9921142
LMArena Chinese—1206
LMArena French—1151
LMArena German—1123
LMArena Japanese—1074
LMArena Korean—1044
LMArena Russian—1118
LMArena Spanish—1142

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-110B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following10241158

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query—1157

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-110B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text10571175
LMArena Creative Writing—1148
LMArena Multi-Turn—1160

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-110B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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