Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Llama 2-7B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 51.7 to 28.0.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Llama 2-7B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index37.829.1
Released2025-02-052023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3229

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding13221002
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241009
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—99.06
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
LiveBench54.3%—
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math13091042
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert13051036
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Vision1100—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1323973
LMArena Chinese1339973
LMArena French1347970
LMArena German1306978
LMArena Russian1328995
LMArena Spanish13131007
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following13051006
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1320999

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text13301053
LMArena Creative Writing13191033
LMArena Multi-Turn13071029
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Llama 2-7B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Llama 2-7B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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