Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon 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 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 12.8.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 Argon and Llama 3-70B specifications
Gemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index56.528.8
Released2026-09-302024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2131

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding15501206
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Cybench—5%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts15481195
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
CritPt27.1%—
DTBench—54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Math15361218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
ProofBench99%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert15531149
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English15231142
LMArena Chinese16101114
LMArena Russian15371159
LMArena Spanish14971241
LMArena French—1232
LMArena German—1169
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following15381194

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query15491174

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text15341221
LMArena Creative Writing15311210
LMArena Multi-Turn15571223

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Llama 3-70B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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