Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Llama 3.2 3B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 3B Meta

28.9

Rank #321 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 51.7 to 24.7.
  • Llama 3.2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index37.828.9
Released2025-02-052024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.33
Results tracked3218

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Coding13221098
BigCodeBench Instruct—23.4%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—28.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—21.9%
BALROG—10.1%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241095
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math13091126
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert13051090
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Llama 3.2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English13231019
LMArena Chinese13391017
LMArena German13061056
LMArena Russian1328949
LMArena French1347—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following13051089
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query13201100

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text13301110
LMArena Creative Writing13191094
LMArena Multi-Turn13071105
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—595
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Llama 3.2 3B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.

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