Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Llama 3.1-405B
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 30.4 to 16.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 50.9% for Llama 3.1-405B.
- Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.7 |
| Released | 2024-10-03 | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1291 |
| WeirdML | — | 21.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 7.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1209 | 1269 |
| DTBench | 50% | 61.4% |
| SimpleBench | — | 23% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 45% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 82.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.75 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.9 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89.2% |
| PIQA | — | 85.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 89.2% |
Math Llama 3.1-405B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | 9.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1207 | 1281 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 49.8% |
Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 50.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | 1243 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 52.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 95.3% |
| MMLU | — | 84.5% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Llama 3.1-405B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | 1248 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1234 | 1279 |
| LMArena German | 1206 | 1252 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | 1265 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | 1260 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1259 |
| IFEval | — | 81.1% |
Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | 1284 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | 1262 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | 1297 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 870 |
| WildBench | — | 78.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Llama 3.1-405B?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3.1-405B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.