Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.128.8
Released2026-07-212024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked4631

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14911206
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench715.52—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Cybench—5%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851195
DTBench95.5%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25122.93
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
LMCA44.9%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%4.3%
LMArena Math15051218
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond94.1%40.6%
LMArena Expert14881149
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14691142
LMArena Chinese15311114
LMArena French15041232
LMArena German14781169
LMArena Japanese14761017
LMArena Korean14311017
LMArena Russian14871159
LMArena Spanish14751241

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14661194

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14741174

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text14791221
LMArena Creative Writing14651210
LMArena Multi-Turn14811223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Llama 3-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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