Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Llama 3.2 90B
Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 38.1 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 73.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
- Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 39.0 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-04-17 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.5 (#210), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 28.7% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 41.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1424 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 661.88 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.6 (#67), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 33.5% | 27.3% |
| Terminal-Bench | 17.1% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 56.2% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 41.1% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 548.84 | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.2 (#271), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | 2.7% | 0.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 143.04 | 125.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 2.5% | — |
| SimpleBench | 41.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 56.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 33.3% | — |
| CritPt | 1.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1422 | — |
| DTBench | 76.5% | — |
| LMCA | 27.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |
Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 38.1 (#87), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.1% | 2.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 38.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1415 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.1 (#162), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 16.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1426 | — |
| MMLU | — | 80.3% |
Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.2 (#31), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1254 | 1000 |
| GeoBench | 76% | 52% |
| VPCT | 46.2% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 36.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.5 (#83), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | — |
| LMArena French | 1433 | — |
| LMArena German | 1419 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1403 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1415 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.9 (#50), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 89.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1405 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#16), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1419 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 54.0 (#153), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1400 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1137 | — |
| WildBench | 81.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1408 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Llama 3.2 90B?
Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Llama 3.2 90B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.