Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.1 to 12.8.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index37.828.8
Released2025-02-052024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3231

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding13221206
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241195
DTBench52.5%54.2%
ForecastBench57.157.1
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
LiveBench54.3%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Math13091218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert13051149
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13231142
LMArena Chinese13391114
LMArena French13471232
LMArena German13061169
LMArena Japanese13011017
LMArena Korean13251017
LMArena Russian13281159
LMArena Spanish13131241

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13051194
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13201174

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text13301221
LMArena Creative Writing13191210
LMArena Multi-Turn13071223
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Llama 3-70B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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