CodeLlama vs WizardCoder

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

CodeLlama Meta's 2023 open-weight code models, now archived but still usable. Visit WizardCoder Microsoft's 2023 Evol-Instruct code model — once SOTA, now dated. Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.5 / 10 5.8 / 10
Capability 6 6
Value for money 9 7.5
Ease of use 4 4
ASEAN readiness 6 5
API quality 5 0
Pricing Open Source Open Source
Free tier Free to download Free to download
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 1m+ downloads 200k+ downloads
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Meta Platforms Microsoft
Verdict

Code Llama is Meta's 2023 family of open-weight code models (7B–70B, plus Python and Instruct variants) built on Llama 2, with completion, infill, and up to 100K-token context. It's free to download and self-host under t...

WizardCoder applies Microsoft's Evol-Instruct technique — progressively harder auto-generated coding instructions — to fine-tune Code Llama and DeepSeek-Coder bases. At release it was genuinely competitive: WizardCoder-3...

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