Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Llama 13b

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 53.8 to 13.8.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Llama 13b specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index39.324.4
Released2025-04-172023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked5421

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
LMArena Coding1424683
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
ALE-Bench661.88—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1422728
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03100.58
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
DTBench76.5%—
LMCA27.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
ForecastBench60.6—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
LMArena Math1415838
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
Omni-MATH38.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
LMArena Expert1426—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
ScienceQA—43.3%
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
LMArena Non-English1409819
LMArena Chinese1450—
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Russian1415—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1405781
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1419—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 13b
LMArena Text1417834
LMArena Creative Writing1400794
LMArena Multi-Turn1408753
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Llama 13b?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Llama 13b better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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