Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Llama 2-13B

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 63.7 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 82.4% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Llama 2-13B specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index45.029.6
Released2025-03-252023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7832

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14521062
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles20%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551051
DTBench82.4%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32106.17
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench61.3—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
LiveBench82.3%—
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Math14501065
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert14521030
GPQA Diamond85.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
ScienceQA—55.8%
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14511024
LMArena Chinese15071001
LMArena French14721044
LMArena German14871009
LMArena Japanese1461894
LMArena Korean1434953
LMArena Russian14611055
LMArena Spanish14731087

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following14371045
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query14491064
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text14581084
LMArena Creative Writing14541047
LMArena Multi-Turn14531050
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Llama 2-13B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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