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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-70B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 62.8% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 54.2% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index37.028.8
Released2025-06-172024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3331

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding13731206
WeirdML35.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench325.9—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13771195
DTBench62.8%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94122.93
LMCA18.1%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Math13731218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
Omni-MATH48%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert13731149
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13691142
LMArena Chinese14041114
LMArena French13881232
LMArena German13891169
LMArena Japanese13591017
LMArena Korean13601017
LMArena Russian13731159
LMArena Spanish13961241

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13671194
IFEval81%—

Long Context Llama 3-70B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13731174
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text13791221
LMArena Creative Writing13671210
LMArena Multi-Turn13661223
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Llama 3-70B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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