Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 32.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.0

Rank #162 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 38.1 to 13.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 73.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 4.4% for Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B.
  • Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index39.032.6
Released2025-04-172024-11-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked5414

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.5 (#210), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 35.4 (#211)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Coding14241236
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
ALE-Bench661.88—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.6 (#67), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

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

Reasoning Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.2 (#271), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 22.9 (#172)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221220
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
DTBench76.5%—
LMCA27.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index143.04—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 38.1 (#87), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 13.3 (#297)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%4.4%
LMArena Math14151242
Omni-MATH38.5%—
MATH Level 5—42.7%
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), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.1 (#257)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPQA Diamond—46.3%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
LMArena Expert1426—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.2 (#31), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Vision1254—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.5 (#83), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 40.1 (#217)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Non-English14101236
LMArena Chinese14501249
LMArena Russian14151246
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1419—
LMArena Japanese1403—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.9 (#50), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 65.0 (#222)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Instruction Following14051233
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#16), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#217)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Longer Query14191224
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 54.0 (#153), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.8 (#218)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Text14171256
LMArena Creative Writing14001231
LMArena Multi-Turn14081252
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 32.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.5 vs 35.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.

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