Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Llama 2-7B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B 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 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 50% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 0% for Llama 2-7B.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.128.6
Released2026-05-192023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5429

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding14921002
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 2-7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
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 2-7B: 15.1 (#309)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles50%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14881009
Epoch Capabilities Index154.5598.54
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%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
ForecastBench59—
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math15021042
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert14931036
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Llama 2-7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1475973
LMArena Chinese1525973
LMArena French1490969
LMArena German1500978
LMArena Russian1491995
LMArena Spanish14781007
LMArena Japanese1481—
LMArena Korean1453—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following14661006

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1481999

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text14811053
LMArena Creative Writing14671033
LMArena Multi-Turn14821029
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Llama 2-7B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Llama 2-7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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