Noometry

Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.8 Max in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 54.4 to 20.1.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.756.8
Released—2026-08-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked739

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
DeepSWE—57.5%
LMArena WebDev—1674
FrontierSWE—17.8%
SciCode—53.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1502
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
APEX-Agents—63.3%
τ²-bench Banking—55.1%
GDP.pdf—23.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Hard Prompts10521496
NYT Connections (extended)—88.3%
CritPt—20%
Chess Puzzles—40%
Mystery Game Puzzles—38%
DTBench—92%
LMCA—46.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.41

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—58%
LMArena Math—1499

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
GPQA Diamond—92.7%
SimpleQA Verified—47.3%
LMArena Expert—1507

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision—1314
Furniture Assembly—20%

Multilingual Qwen3.8 Max leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English9921472
LMArena Chinese—1538
LMArena French—1503
LMArena German—1483
LMArena Japanese—1467
LMArena Korean—1461
LMArena Russian—1481
LMArena Spanish—1492

Instruction Following Qwen3.8 Max leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following10241479

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query—1489

Writing & Preference Qwen3.8 Max leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30)

BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text10571483
LMArena Creative Writing—1479
LMArena Multi-Turn—1489

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen3.8 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3.8 Max share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 39.

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