Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro 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 Pro leads 64.4 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 3-70B specifications
Gemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.828.8
Released2025-11-182024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked6731

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14811206
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
Cybench—5%
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801195
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92122.93
ForecastBench61.257.1
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—54.2%
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%4.3%
LMArena Math14761218
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond92.6%40.6%
LMArena Expert14751149
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14741142
LMArena Chinese15231114
LMArena French14921232
LMArena German15151169
LMArena Japanese15101017
LMArena Korean14481017
LMArena Russian14931159
LMArena Spanish14701241

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14581194
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14711174
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text14791221
LMArena Creative Writing14821210
LMArena Multi-Turn14841223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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