Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.1 vs 35.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 61.3.
  • Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index35.135.7
Released2024-12-06—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked5411

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 34.4 (#235)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Coding13501183
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 22.8 (#188)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Hard Prompts13461174
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 33.9 (#198)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Math13521195
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
GPQA Diamond64.1%—
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
LMArena Expert1339—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 35.4 (#246)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Non-English13421169
LMArena Chinese13731176
LMArena Russian13511193
LMArena French1391—
LMArena German1353—
LMArena Japanese1294—
LMArena Korean1313—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 61.3 (#246)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Instruction Following13361174
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 35.8 (#239)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Longer Query13441181
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 39.7 (#245)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b
LMArena Text13541193
LMArena Creative Writing13401182
LMArena Multi-Turn13501154
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.1 vs 35.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b better for coding?

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b has 11.

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