Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Llama 3-8B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3-8B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.0 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 62.8% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 43.9% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index37.025.5
Released2025-06-172024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3334

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding13731152
WeirdML35.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
ALE-Bench325.9—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771133
DTBench62.8%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94116.45
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA18.1%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
ForecastBench—58.6
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Math13731151
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.9%
Omni-MATH48%—
MATH Level 5—6.1%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Expert13731113
GPQA Diamond—26.1%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English13691098
LMArena Chinese14041076
LMArena French13881159
LMArena German13891104
LMArena Japanese1359967
LMArena Korean13601004
LMArena Russian13731109
LMArena Spanish13961173

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following13671127
IFEval81%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query13731128
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text13791166
LMArena Creative Writing13671150
LMArena Multi-Turn13661152
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Llama 3-8B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Llama 3-8B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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