Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Llama 3.1-70B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.6), 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

Llama 3.1-70B Meta

29.6

Rank #308 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.1-70B leads 24.2 to 16.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 44.2% for Llama 3.1-70B.
  • Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index29.929.6
Released2024-10-032024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked2135

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Coding12181260
WeirdML—9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
TheAgentCompany—6.9%
BALROG—27.9%

Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091241
DTBench50%60%
LMCA—14.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.92

Math Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%3.6%
LMArena Math12071252
Omni-MATH—21%
MATH Level 5—36.7%

Knowledge Llama 3.1-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
GPQA Diamond33%44.2%
LMArena Expert11851209
MMLU-Pro—65.3%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
MMLU—80.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Llama 3.1-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Non-English12151219
LMArena Chinese12311215
LMArena French12341261
LMArena German12061222
LMArena Japanese11501132
LMArena Korean11401140
LMArena Russian12361234
LMArena Spanish12121253

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Instruction Following11991231
IFEval—82.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Longer Query12191241

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Text12261261
LMArena Creative Writing12181232
LMArena Multi-Turn11851256
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—784
WildBench—75.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3.1-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3.1-70B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.

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