Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Llama 13b

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

23.9

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 51.9 to 13.9.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Llama 13b specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index37.323.9
Released2025-02-052023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3221

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181), Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Coding1322683
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203), Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1324728
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—100.09
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
LiveBench54.3%—
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192), Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Math1309838
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Vision1100—
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156), Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Non-English1323819
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1346—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158), Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1305781
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Longer Query1321—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172), Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 13b
LMArena Text1330834
LMArena Creative Writing1319794
LMArena Multi-Turn1307753
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Llama 13b?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Llama 13b better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 20.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Llama 13b share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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