Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Gemma 7B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 47.6 to 27.1.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
Gemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index30.030.6
Released2024-02-212024-12-06
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.32
Results tracked2743

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Coding10481268
SciCode—26%
WeirdML—14.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
BALROG—23%

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10421257
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99127.33
SimpleBench—19.9%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
DTBench—59.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LMCA—17.5%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—58.6
HellaSwag82.2%—
LiveBench—50.2%
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Math10661267
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.1%
LiveBench Math—42.2%
MATH Level 5—41.6%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Expert10011225
MMLU66.1%86.3%
GPQA Diamond—47.4%
Confabulations—22.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English9991236
LMArena Chinese10351217
LMArena French10251281
LMArena Russian9931252
LMArena German—1251
LMArena Japanese—1150
LMArena Korean—1143
LMArena Spanish—1270

Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10171242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%

Long Context Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10221256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text10561274
LMArena Creative Writing10241250
LMArena Multi-Turn9631280
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Gemma 7B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemma 7B or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.5 vs 31.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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