Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Llama 3.1-70B

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-70B Meta

29.6

Rank #308 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 2 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 35.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 36.7% for Llama 3.1-70B.
  • Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3.1-70B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index32.129.6
Released2024-02-152024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked4535

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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 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
WeirdML22.2%9%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%46.1%
LMArena Coding12941260
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%54.8%
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.1-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
TheAgentCompany3.4%6.9%
BALROG21%27.9%
Cybench7.5%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12961241
DTBench59%60%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73125.92
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
LMCA—14.8%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
ForecastBench58.4—

Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%3.6%
Omni-MATH36.4%21%
LMArena Math13151252
MATH Level 570.4%36.7%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
GPQA Diamond57.2%44.2%
MMLU-Pro73.7%65.3%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%42.6%
LMArena Expert12791209
MMLU86.9%80.1%
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
Confabulations13.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Llama 3.1-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
LMArena Non-English13121219
LMArena Chinese13311215
LMArena French13021261
LMArena German12861222
LMArena Japanese12921132
LMArena Korean12981140
LMArena Russian13201234
LMArena Spanish13111253

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
IFEval83.7%82.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12971231

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
LMArena Longer Query13081241

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3.1-70B
LMArena Text13191261
LMArena Creative Writing13331232
WildBench81.3%75.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn12961256
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—784

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3.1-70B share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.

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