Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Llama 3-8B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash 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 leads 66.3 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3.5 Flash 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 FlashLlama 3-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.225.5
Released2026-05-192024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5434

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding14921152
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
ALE-Bench911.02—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
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 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
Chess Puzzles50%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14881133
DTBench94.7%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46116.45
ForecastBench5958.6
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%1.9%
LMArena Math15041151
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
ProofBench31%—
MATH Level 5—6.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond92.8%26.1%
LMArena Expert14951113
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English14761098
LMArena Chinese15261076
LMArena French14901159
LMArena German14921104
LMArena Japanese1486967
LMArena Korean14511004
LMArena Russian14931109
LMArena Spanish14801173

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following14671127

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query14821128

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text14821166
LMArena Creative Writing14701150
LMArena Multi-Turn14811152
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Llama 3-8B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Llama 3-8B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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