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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Llama 3.1-70B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index. Llama 3.1-70B costs 2.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #33 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-70B Meta

29.4

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 51.4 to 12.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 3.6% for Llama 3.1-70B.
  • Llama 3.1-70B is cheaper at $0.40 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index52.329.4
Released2025-12-172024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.40
Results tracked5935

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.5 (#35), Llama 3.1-70B: 29.8 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
WeirdML61.6%9%
LMArena Coding14601260
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.8%
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.6 (#27), Llama 3.1-70B: 24.9 (#104)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
BALROG48.1%27.9%
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
TheAgentCompany—6.9%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#35), Llama 3.1-70B: 20.8 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14651241
DTBench89.1%60%
LMCA43.1%14.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.83125.91
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.4 (#42), Llama 3.1-70B: 12.7 (#298)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%3.6%
LMArena Math14721252
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
Omni-MATH—21%
MATH Level 5—36.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#30), Llama 3.1-70B: 24.1 (#264)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
GPQA Diamond89.4%44.2%
LMArena Expert14611209
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
MMLU-Pro—65.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
MMLU—80.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.3 (#15), Llama 3.1-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.9 (#26), Llama 3.1-70B: 38.9 (#220)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Non-English14581219
LMArena Chinese15101215
LMArena French14781260
LMArena German14971222
LMArena Japanese14881132
LMArena Korean14431140
LMArena Russian14801234
LMArena Spanish14701253

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.8 (#52), Llama 3.1-70B: 65.5 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14371231
IFEval—82.1%

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#63), Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#208)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Longer Query14521241

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.6 (#44), Llama 3.1-70B: 35.6 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Text14661261
LMArena Creative Writing14571232
LMArena Multi-Turn14711256
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—784
WildBench—75.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index. Llama 3.1-70B costs 2.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Llama 3.1-70B?

Llama 3.1-70B is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.5 versus 29.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Llama 3.1-70B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.

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