Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 5.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.3

Rank #283 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 9 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 30.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 5.1% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index41.830.3
Released2026-07-212024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.32
Results tracked3843

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#284)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SciCode41.3%26%
WeirdML39%14.4%
LMArena Coding14551268
LMArena WebDev1440—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
BALROG—23%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 13.7 (#325)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
CritPt0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411257
DTBench83.5%59.5%
LMCA37.6%17.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12127.32
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
SimpleBench—19.9%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
ForecastBench—58.6
LiveBench—50.2%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.3 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%5.1%
LMArena Math14311268
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LiveBench Math—42.2%
MATH Level 5—41.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.5 (#220)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond83.3%47.4%
LMArena Expert14301225
Confabulations—22.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.1%
MMLU—86.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 40.1 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English14281236
LMArena Chinese14671217
LMArena French14521280
LMArena German14541251
LMArena Japanese14281149
LMArena Korean14061142
LMArena Russian14431252
LMArena Spanish14401269

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.3 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14201242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#290)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14351256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.8 (#203)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text14361274
LMArena Creative Writing14191250
LMArena Multi-Turn14451279
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 5.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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