# Gemma 2B vs Llama 2-34B

> Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-llama-2-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | — |
| Rank | 307 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | 44.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 105.2 |
| PIQA | 77.3% | 81.9% |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | 76.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 17.7% | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1009 | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | 54.5% |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | 83.7% |
| MMLU | 42.3% | 62.6% |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | 84.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 58.2% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Llama 2-34B?

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Llama 2-34B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-34B has 10.