Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 7 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 39.0 to 26.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 61.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 41.6% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index33.230.6
Released2024-05-142024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.32
Results tracked4243

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
WeirdML24.9%14.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%46.9%
LMArena Coding12611268
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%57.5%
SciCode—26%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
BALROG14.6%23%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12571257
DTBench53.8%59.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36127.33
ForecastBench53.958.6
SimpleBench—19.9%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LMCA—17.5%
LiveBench—50.2%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%5.1%
LMArena Math12691267
MATH Level 561.9%41.6%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LiveBench Math—42.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond47.3%47.4%
LMArena Expert12331225
MMLU77.9%86.3%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Confabulations—22.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.1%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English12781236
LMArena Chinese12951217
LMArena French12581281
LMArena German12621251
LMArena Japanese12521150
LMArena Korean12211143
LMArena Russian12881252
LMArena Spanish12431270

Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12581242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12841256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text12871274
LMArena Creative Writing12851250
LMArena Multi-Turn12531280
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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