Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Gemma 2 27B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 2 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.4

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 20.0 to 15.3.
  • Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index29.929.4
Released2024-10-032024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—2K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.65
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked2134

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Coding12181211
BigCodeBench Instruct—42.8%
LiveBench Coding—36%
BigCodeBench Complete—52.5%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091198
DTBench50%48%
LiveBench Reasoning—28.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—47.9%
LMCA—7.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.08
LiveBench—38.2%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%1.4%
LMArena Math12071212
LiveBench Math—26.5%
MATH Level 5—27.9%

Knowledge Gemma 2 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
GPQA Diamond33%36.5%
LMArena Expert11851172
Confabulations—27.1%
MMLU—75.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Gemma 2 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Non-English12151217
LMArena Chinese12311221
LMArena French12341247
LMArena German12061209
LMArena Japanese11501175
LMArena Korean11401174
LMArena Russian12361234
LMArena Spanish12121228

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Instruction Following11991206
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Longer Query12191231

Writing & Preference Gemma 2 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Text12261231
LMArena Creative Writing12181241
LMArena Multi-Turn11851224
LiveBench Language—32.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Gemma 2 27B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 2 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 2 27B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.

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