Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Llama 3.1-405B

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 52.4 to 38.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 49.8% for Llama 3.1-405B.
  • Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index32.130.7
Released2024-02-152024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4542

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
WeirdML22.2%21.4%
LMArena Coding12941291
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.1-405B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
TheAgentCompany3.4%7.4%
Cybench7.5%7.5%
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1-405B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench27.1%23%
LMArena Hard Prompts12961269
DTBench59%61.4%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%82.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73128.75
ForecastBench58.459.9
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—45%
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%9.7%
Omni-MATH36.4%24.9%
LMArena Math13151281
MATH Level 570.4%49.8%

Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond57.2%50.9%
MMLU-Pro73.7%72.3%
Confabulations13.5%17.6%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%52.2%
LMArena Expert12791243
MMLU86.9%84.5%
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English13121248
LMArena Chinese13311242
LMArena French13021279
LMArena German12861252
LMArena Japanese12921208
LMArena Korean12981184
LMArena Russian13201265
LMArena Spanish13111260

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
IFEval83.7%81.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12971259

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query13081266

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text13191284
LMArena Creative Writing13331262
WildBench81.3%78.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn12961297
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—870

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3.1-405B share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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