Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Llama 3-8B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 1.9% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.125.5
Released2026-07-212024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked4634

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding14911152
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
ALE-Bench715.52—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
Chess Puzzles43%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851133
DTBench95.5%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25116.45
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
LMCA44.9%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
ForecastBench—58.6
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%1.9%
LMArena Math15051151
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
MATH Level 5—6.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond94.1%26.1%
LMArena Expert14881113
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
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 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English14691098
LMArena Chinese15311076
LMArena French15041159
LMArena German14781104
LMArena Japanese1476967
LMArena Korean14311004
LMArena Russian14871109
LMArena Spanish14751173

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following14661127

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query14741128

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text14791166
LMArena Creative Writing14651150
LMArena Multi-Turn14811152
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Llama 3-8B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Llama 3-8B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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