Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 49.3 to 40.5.
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | |
| Noometry Index | 37.0 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2025-06-17 | 2024-12-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 33 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1373 | 1272 |
| WeirdML | 35.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.2% |
| ALE-Bench | 325.9 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 36.9% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1377 | 1266 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.5% | — |
| DTBench | 62.8% | — |
| LMCA | 18.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.94 | — |
Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1271 |
| Omni-MATH | 48% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1373 | 1242 |
| MMLU-Pro | 53.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 3.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1198 | — |
| VPCT | 30% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1369 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1404 | 1263 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1388 | — |
| LMArena German | 1389 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1359 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1360 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1396 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1367 | 1252 |
| IFEval | 81% | — |
Long Context Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1238 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 47.2% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1379 | 1283 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1367 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1366 | 1275 |
| WildBench | 81.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14.