Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Gemma 7B
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 7B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 31.2 to 14.2.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2024-10-03 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1048 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1209 | 1042 |
| DTBench | 50% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 111.99 |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |
Math Gemma 7B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1207 | 1066 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |
Knowledge Gemma 7B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | 1001 |
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | 1035 |
| LMArena French | 1234 | 1025 |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | 993 |
| LMArena German | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1017 |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1022 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | 963 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Gemma 7B?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Gemma 7B better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 7B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.