Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 51.7 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Llama 3-70B specifications
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index52.328.8
Released2025-12-172024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$3—
Results tracked5931

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14601206
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench1,367—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
Cybench—5%
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14651195
DTBench89.1%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8122.93
ForecastBench58.557.1
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
LMCA43.1%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%4.3%
LMArena Math14731218
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond89.4%40.6%
LMArena Expert14621149
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Llama 3-70B: —

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

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14581142
LMArena Chinese15111114
LMArena French14771232
LMArena German14971169
LMArena Japanese14891017
LMArena Korean14431017
LMArena Russian14801159
LMArena Spanish14691241

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14371194

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14521174

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text14661221
LMArena Creative Writing14571210
LMArena Multi-Turn14711223

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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