Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Llama 3.1-8B

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

39.1

Rank #173 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-8B Meta

23.0

Rank #352 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3.1-8B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 39.7 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 83.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 22.9% for Llama 3.1-8B.
  • Llama 3.1-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index39.123.0
Released2025-02-052024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked1443

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), Llama 3.1-8B: 20.2 (#340)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
Aider Polyglot35.6%—
SciCode—13.2%
WeirdML—1.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LiveBench Coding63.5%—
LMArena Coding—1195
BigCodeBench Complete—40.5%
HumanEval+—62.8%
MBPP+—55.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Llama 3.1-8B: 22.5 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—25.8%
BALROG—15.1%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), Llama 3.1-8B: 14.9 (#321)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
Epoch Capabilities Index135.06116.57
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval0.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning60.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1175
DTBench—50.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis68%—
LMCA—5.4%
LiveBench65.1%—
PIQA—81.2%

Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), Llama 3.1-8B: 10.2 (#317)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
MATH Level 583.5%22.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.7%
Omni-MATH—13.7%
LiveBench Math71%—
LMArena Math—1179
GSM8K—82.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), Llama 3.1-8B: 8.0 (#307)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
GPQA Diamond65.7%27%
MMLU-Pro—40.6%
Confabulations18.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—24.7%
LMArena Expert—1144
BoolQ—82.8%
MMLU—56.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Llama 3.1-8B: 34.0 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Non-English—1148
LMArena Chinese—1151
LMArena French—1177
LMArena German—1144
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1053
LMArena Russian—1158
LMArena Spanish—1169

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), Llama 3.1-8B: 58.9 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
LiveBench Instruction Following83.4%—
IFEval—74.3%
LMArena Instruction Following—1159

Long Context Llama 3.1-8B leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), Llama 3.1-8B: 35.8 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
Fiction.LiveBench41.7%—
LMArena Longer Query—1182

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), Llama 3.1-8B: 29.7 (#290)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Text—1187
LMArena Creative Writing—1154
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—713
WildBench—68.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1172
LiveBench Language44.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Llama 3.1-8B?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Llama 3.1-8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Llama 3.1-8B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-8B has 43.

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