Model comparison
Gemma 3 1B vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 1 category and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 30.6 to 7.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B and 47.4% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 21.1 | 30.6 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.32 |
| Results tracked | 4 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 26% |
| WeirdML | — | 14.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1268 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 7.2% | 31.9% |
| BALROG | — | 23% |
Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads
Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 19.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 50.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1257 |
| DTBench | — | 59.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.33 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 50.2% |
Math Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.1% | 5.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1267 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 41.6% |
Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 19.9% | 47.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1225 |
| MMLU | — | 86.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1217 |
| LMArena French | — | 1281 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1143 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1270 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 82.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1242 |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1256 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1250 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1280 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 1B better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.