# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama 2-13B

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-llama-2-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 29.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 53.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
- Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 246 | 309 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1062 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1051 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | 42.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 106.17 |
| PIQA | 87.5% | 80.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | — | 76.5% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.8% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1065 |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | 36.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1030 |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | 82.4% |
| MMLU | 77.9% | 55.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 57% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.6% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1001 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1044 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1087 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1045 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1064 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1050 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama 2-13B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 2-13B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.