Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-70B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 39.9 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 73.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Llama 3-70B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index39.328.8
Released2025-04-172024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked5431

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14241206
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench661.88—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
Cybench—5%
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14221195
DTBench76.5%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03122.93
ForecastBench60.657.1
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
LMCA27.5%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%4.3%
LMArena Math14151218
Omni-MATH38.5%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert14261149
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14091142
LMArena Chinese14501114
LMArena French14331232
LMArena German14181169
LMArena Japanese14051017
LMArena Korean13851017
LMArena Russian14151159
LMArena Spanish14211241

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14051194
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14191174
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text14171221
LMArena Creative Writing14001210
LMArena Multi-Turn14081223
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

They score almost the same on coding (35.8 vs 35.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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