Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat NVIDIA

31.2

Rank #265 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 57.0 to 31.8.
  • Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index36.431.2
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked339

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 29.3 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Coding13731025
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 19.1 (#245)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Hard Prompts13771047
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.8 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Math13731072
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.9 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Non-English13691064
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1358—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 54.5 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Instruction Following13661061
IFEval81%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 30.4 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Longer Query1373998
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.8 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Text13791098
LMArena Creative Writing13661091
LMArena Multi-Turn13671058
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has 9.

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