Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Llama 3-8B

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google

56.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.8 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 1.9% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Llama 3-8B specifications
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index56.725.5
Released2026-02-192024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$12—
Results tracked7134

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding14841152
SWE-bench Verified75.6%—
DeepSWE11.7%—
LMArena WebDev1447—
SciCode58.9%—
GSO22.6%—
WeirdML72.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
MirrorCode8.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
ALE-Bench1,161—
AlgoTune2.02—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34), Llama 3-8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents35.3%—
τ²-bench Banking26%—
DeepResearch Bench47.8%—
PostTrainBench22%—
BALROG57%—
ExploitBench26.1%—
GBAEval0.8%—
GDP.pdf17%—
LMArena Search1211—
METR Time Horizons77%—
Vending-Bench 23,774—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
Chess Puzzles55%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851133
DTBench97.1%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.77116.45
ForecastBench5958.6
ARC-AGI-277.1%—
SimpleBench79.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198%—
CritPt17.7%—
EnigmaEval36.8%—
Thematic Generalization79.4%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
LMCA53.8%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%1.9%
LMArena Math14851151
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)59.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions86.5%—
ProofBench26%—
MATH Level 5—6.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)36.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)16.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond94.4%26.1%
LMArena Expert14851113
Humanity's Last Exam46.4%—
SimpleQA Verified73.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69), Llama 3-8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
LMArena Vision1296—
Blueprint-Bench 226.5%—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English14771098
LMArena Chinese15291076
LMArena French14871159
LMArena German14911104
LMArena Japanese1493967
LMArena Korean14551004
LMArena Russian14981109
LMArena Spanish14791173

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following14661127

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query14831128
CL-bench20.8%—
CL-bench Life16.9%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text14811166
LMArena Creative Writing14821150
LMArena Multi-Turn14881152
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench 41142—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better than Llama 3-8B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Llama 3-8B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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