Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Llama 3.2 3B

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 3B Meta

28.9

Rank #321 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 49.5 to 24.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.9% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 28.3% for Llama 3.2 3B.
  • Llama 3.2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.2 3B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index35.128.9
Released2024-12-062024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.33
Results tracked5418

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%23.4%
LMArena Coding13501098
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%28.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
WeirdML25.8%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—21.9%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
BALROG—10.1%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts13461095
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math13521126
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert13391090
GPQA Diamond64.1%—
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Llama 3.2 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English13421019
LMArena Chinese13731017
LMArena German13531056
LMArena Russian1351949
LMArena French1391—
LMArena Japanese1294—
LMArena Korean1313—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following13361089
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query13441100
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text13541110
LMArena Creative Writing13401094
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128595
LMArena Multi-Turn13501105
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
WildBench80%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.4 vs 27.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.2 3B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.

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