# Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Llama 3.1-8B

> Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 22.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-pro-vs-llama-3-1-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3.1-8B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 36.5 to 8.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 83.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 22.9% for Llama 3.1-8B.
- Llama 3.1-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 38.6 | 22.8 |
| Rank | 171 | 347 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.08 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.4 (#182)
- Llama 3.1-8B: 19.9 (#335)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 35.6% | — |
| SciCode | — | 13.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 1.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1195 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.8% |
| MBPP+ | — | 55.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 22.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 25.8% |
| BALROG | — | 15.1% |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 21.6 (#194)
- Llama 3.1-8B: 14.5 (#316)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.06 | 116.48 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 60.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1175 |
| DTBench | — | 50.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 68% | — |
| LMCA | — | 5.4% |
| LiveBench | 65.1% | — |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.1 (#101)
- Llama 3.1-8B: 9.5 (#311)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 83.5% | 22.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 13.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 71% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1179 |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#156)
- Llama 3.1-8B: 8.0 (#302)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7% | 27% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 40.6% |
| Confabulations | 18.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 24.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1144 |
| BoolQ | — | 82.8% |
| MMLU | — | 56.1% |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 34.2 (#244)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1148 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1151 |
| LMArena French | — | 1176 |
| LMArena German | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1053 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1169 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.6 (#57)
- Llama 3.1-8B: 59.1 (#253)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 83.4% | — |
| IFEval | — | 74.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1159 |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.1 (#287)
- Llama 3.1-8B: 35.8 (#233)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 41.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1182 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#164)
- Llama 3.1-8B: 29.9 (#285)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1187 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1154 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 713 |
| WildBench | — | 68.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1172 |
| LiveBench Language | 44.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Llama 3.1-8B?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 22.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Llama 3.1-8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Llama 3.1-8B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-8B has 43.