Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3 Coder Next

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 Coder Next score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba (Qwen)

34.3

Rank #232 Reported

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Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 Coder Next specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen3 Coder Next
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.734.3
Released—2026-02-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.80
Results tracked73

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 Coder Next
SciCode—32.3%
WeirdML—34.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 Coder Next
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3 Coder Next?

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 Coder Next score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 34.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 Coder Next share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.

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