# Gemma 3 12B vs Llama 2-34B

> Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#255); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-3-12b-vs-llama-2-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
- Gemma 3 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | — |
| Rank | 255 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.05 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 3 12B: 31.2 (#276)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 17.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1281 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 3 12B: 25.3 (#101)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 30.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 3 12B: 15.2 (#307)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.49 | 104.81 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1309 | — |
| DTBench | 48.8% | — |
| LMCA | 4.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 44.1% |
| PIQA | — | 81.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.7% |

## Math

- Gemma 3 12B: 21.0 (#273)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 42.2% |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#250)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 39.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1248 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 54.5% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.7% |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 58.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.6% |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 3 12B: —
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| MindCube | 46.7% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 3 12B: 45.9 (#160)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | — |
| LMArena German | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1335 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 3 12B: 68.8 (#179)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1299 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#157)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1317 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 3 12B: 47.7 (#205)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1331 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1126 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1334 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 3 12B better than Llama 2-34B?

Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#255); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and Llama 2-34B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-34B has 10.