Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3.5-9B
Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 23.1 to 20.1.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.8 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | — |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.46 |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3.5-9B?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.