Code Llama 70B and Codestral 25.01 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Code Llama 70B shipped 350 days before Codestral 25.01, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Code Llama 70B is open weight, while Codestral 25.01 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Code Llama 70B and Codestral 25.01 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.