Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Llama 2-70B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 66.3 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.224.4
Released2026-05-192023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5435

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14921079
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Llama 2-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14881073
DTBench94.7%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46113.79
ForecastBench5951.4
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%0%
LMArena Math15041091
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
ProofBench31%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond92.8%26.3%
LMArena Expert14951039
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Llama 2-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14761045
LMArena Chinese1526995
LMArena French14901090
LMArena German14921041
LMArena Japanese1486927
LMArena Korean1451964
LMArena Russian14931083
LMArena Spanish14801143

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14671071

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14821062

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text14821115
LMArena Creative Writing14701075
LMArena Multi-Turn14811088
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Llama 2-70B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Llama 2-70B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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