Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 40.7 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index40.828.8
Released2026-03-032024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3831

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14001206
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench797.73—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14071195
DTBench76.8%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47122.93
ForecastBench54.457.1
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMCA35%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%4.3%
LMArena Math14281218
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond81.8%40.6%
LMArena Expert13981149
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14111142
LMArena Chinese14611114
LMArena French14241232
LMArena German14291169
LMArena Japanese14131017
LMArena Korean13921017
LMArena Russian14201159
LMArena Spanish14211241

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13771194

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13941174

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text14161221
LMArena Creative Writing14011210
LMArena Multi-Turn14171223

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Llama 3-70B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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