Model comparison
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Llama 3-8B
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 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 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 7.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 1.9% for Llama 3-8B.
- Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 25.5 |
| Released | 2026-07-21 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1453 | 1152 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | — |
| SciCode | 41.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 39% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 31.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 36.9% |
| ALE-Bench | 765.27 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Llama 3-8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 29.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 10% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 22% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1441 | 1133 |
| DTBench | 83.5% | 43.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.13 | 116.45 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 10.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 60.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 53.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| LMCA | 37.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.7% |
Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 1.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1433 | 1151 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 26% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| ProofBench | 13% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |
Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.3% | 26.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1435 | 1113 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 82.8% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Llama 3-8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1268 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1469 | 1076 |
| LMArena French | 1451 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1454 | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1427 | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 1004 |
| LMArena Russian | 1443 | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1442 | 1173 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1420 | 1127 |
Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1128 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1435 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1420 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1445 | 1152 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1559 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Llama 3-8B?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Llama 3-8B better for coding?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Llama 3-8B share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.