Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama 4 Scout

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 34.4 to 20.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 43.1% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 4 Scout specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index33.227.7
Released2024-05-142025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
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 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Coding12611286
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%43.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts12571266
DTBench53.8%57.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36129.64
ForecastBench53.957.5
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
LMCA—12%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%7.8%
Omni-MATH30.4%37.3%
LMArena Math12691287
MATH Level 561.9%62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%0%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond47.3%51.8%
MMLU-Pro67.8%74.2%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%50.7%
LMArena Expert12331235
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.7%
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision11411118
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English12781252
LMArena Chinese12951255
LMArena French12581282
LMArena German12621272
LMArena Japanese12521206
LMArena Korean12211207
LMArena Russian12881263
LMArena Spanish12431278

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
IFEval83.1%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12581248

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query12841265
Fiction.LiveBench—36%

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Text12871279
LMArena Creative Writing12851249
WildBench79.2%78%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531280
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama 4 Scout?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 4 Scout share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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