Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Llama 3-8B

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 95.9% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 6.1% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Llama 3-8B specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index45.025.5
Released2025-03-252024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7834

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding14521152
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Llama 3-8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
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 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
Chess Puzzles20%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551133
DTBench82.4%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32116.45
ForecastBench61.358.6
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%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
LiveBench82.3%—
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%1.9%
LMArena Math14501151
MATH Level 595.9%6.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond85.3%26.1%
LMArena Expert14521113
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Llama 3-8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English14511098
LMArena Chinese15071076
LMArena French14721159
LMArena German14871104
LMArena Japanese1461967
LMArena Korean14341004
LMArena Russian14611109
LMArena Spanish14731173

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following14371127
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query14491128
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text14581166
LMArena Creative Writing14541150
LMArena Multi-Turn14531152
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 3-8B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Llama 3-8B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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