Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat NVIDIA

31.8

Rank #268 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 31.6.
  • Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat specifications
Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index40.831.8
Released2026-03-03—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked389

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 29.9 (#300)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Coding14001025
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 20.0 (#246)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Hard Prompts14071047
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.3 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Math14281072
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1398—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.8 (#270)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Non-English14111063
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1424—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1413—
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Russian1420—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 54.2 (#279)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Instruction Following13771060

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 30.4 (#288)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Longer Query1394998

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.6 (#283)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Text14161098
LMArena Creative Writing14011091
LMArena Multi-Turn14171058

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has 9.

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