Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Llama 3.1-8B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 22.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-8B Meta

22.8

Rank #347 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.1-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 34.9 to 19.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 27% for Llama 3.1-8B.
  • Llama 3.1-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index29.722.8
Released2024-10-032024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked2143

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), Llama 3.1-8B: 19.9 (#335)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Coding12181195
SciCode—13.2%
WeirdML—1.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.5%
HumanEval+—62.8%
MBPP+—55.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Llama 3.1-8B: 22.3 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—25.8%
BALROG—15.1%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), Llama 3.1-8B: 14.5 (#316)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12101175
DTBench50%50.9%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA—5.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—116.48
PIQA—81.2%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), Llama 3.1-8B: 9.5 (#311)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%1.7%
LMArena Math12071179
Omni-MATH—13.7%
MATH Level 5—22.9%
GSM8K—82.4%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), Llama 3.1-8B: 8.0 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
GPQA Diamond33%27%
LMArena Expert11851144
MMLU-Pro—40.6%
GPQA (HELM)—24.7%
BoolQ—82.8%
MMLU—56.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), Llama 3.1-8B: —

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

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), Llama 3.1-8B: 34.2 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Non-English12151148
LMArena Chinese12311151
LMArena French12331176
LMArena German12061144
LMArena Japanese11501061
LMArena Korean11401053
LMArena Russian12361158
LMArena Spanish12121169

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), Llama 3.1-8B: 59.1 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Instruction Following11991159
IFEval—74.3%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), Llama 3.1-8B: 35.8 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Longer Query12191182

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), Llama 3.1-8B: 29.9 (#285)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Text12261187
LMArena Creative Writing12181154
LMArena Multi-Turn11851172
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—713
WildBench—68.7%

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 22.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-8B has 43.

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