Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama 4 Scout

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

32.9

Rank #240 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.4

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 33.9 to 19.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 43.1% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 4 Scout specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index32.927.4
Released2024-05-142025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked4243

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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 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Coding12621286
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%43.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts12571266
DTBench53.8%57.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.37129.64
ForecastBench53.957.5
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
LMCA—12%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%7.8%
Omni-MATH30.4%37.3%
LMArena Math12691286
MATH Level 561.9%62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%0%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond47.3%51.8%
MMLU-Pro67.8%74.2%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%50.7%
LMArena Expert12331236
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.7%
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision11411118
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English12781253
LMArena Chinese12951256
LMArena French12571283
LMArena German12621274
LMArena Japanese12521209
LMArena Korean12201207
LMArena Russian12881263
LMArena Spanish12421277

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
IFEval83.1%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12581248

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query12841265
Fiction.LiveBench—36%

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Text12871279
LMArena Creative Writing12851249
WildBench79.2%78%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531281
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama 4 Scout?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 4 Scout share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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