Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Llama 2-70B
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 41.6% for Llama 2-70B.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 24.4 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2023-07-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1079 |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | 1073 |
| DTBench | 52.5% | 41.6% |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | 51.4 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 64.9% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.79 |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 78.9% |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
| PIQA | — | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.2% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1309 | 1091 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0% |
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.3% |
| GSM8K | — | 69.6% |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | 1039 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 88.6% |
| MMLU | — | 69.9% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 60.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 87.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Llama 2-70B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | 995 |
| LMArena French | 1347 | 1090 |
| LMArena German | 1306 | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1071 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | — |
| IFEval | 82.4% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1062 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | 1088 |
| WildBench | 79% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Llama 2-70B?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Llama 2-70B better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Llama 2-70B share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.