Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Llama 3.2 1B

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

20.1

Rank #354 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 31.2 to 10.4.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Llama 3.2 1B specifications
Gemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index30.020.1
Released2024-02-212024-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked2722

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Coding10481070
BigCodeBench Instruct—8.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—11.3%
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10.8%
BALROG—6.6%

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Hard Prompts10421044
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99101.99
Chess Puzzles—0%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Math10661086
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.6%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Expert10011007
GPQA Diamond—23.9%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English999973
LMArena Chinese1035959
LMArena Russian993941
LMArena French1025—
LMArena German—1014

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following10171031

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query10221050

Writing & Preference Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text10561055
LMArena Creative Writing10241033
LMArena Multi-Turn9631030
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—200

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Gemma 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Llama 3.2 1B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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