Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Llama 2-13B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 94.7% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Llama 2-13B specifications
Gemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.129.1
Released2026-05-192023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5432

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14921062
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles50%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14881051
DTBench94.7%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55105.8
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench59—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert14931030
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14751024
LMArena Chinese15251001
LMArena French14901043
LMArena German15001009
LMArena Japanese1481894
LMArena Korean1453953
LMArena Russian14911055
LMArena Spanish14781086

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following14661046

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query14811064

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text14811085
LMArena Creative Writing14671047
LMArena Multi-Turn14821050
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Llama 2-13B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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