Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama 2-13B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

32.9

Rank #240 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.9 to 30.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 53.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 2-13B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index32.929.1
Released2024-05-142023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4232

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding12621062
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Hard Prompts12571051
DTBench53.8%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.37105.8
PIQA87.5%80.8%
Chess Puzzles—0%
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench53.9—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math12691065
GSM8K82.4%36.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert12331030
BoolQ85.8%82.4%
MMLU77.9%55.6%
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English12781024
LMArena Chinese12951001
LMArena French12571043
LMArena German12621009
LMArena Japanese1252894
LMArena Korean1220953
LMArena Russian12881055
LMArena Spanish12421086

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following12581046
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query12841064

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text12871085
LMArena Creative Writing12851047
LMArena Multi-Turn12531050
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama 2-13B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 2-13B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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