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Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Llama 3.2 3B

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 3.2 3B costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 3B Meta

28.9

Rank #321 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.0 to 21.0.
  • Llama 3.2 3B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Llama 3.2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index59.828.9
Released2026-08-132024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.33
Results tracked4418

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Coding14971098
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1592—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—23.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—28.3%
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19), Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—21.9%
Remote Labor Index5%—
BALROG—10.1%
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts14941095
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.27—

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math15071126
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert15081090
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73), Llama 3.2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English14841019
LMArena Chinese15481017
LMArena German14981056
LMArena Russian1516949
LMArena French1505—
LMArena Japanese1512—
LMArena Korean1483—
LMArena Spanish1503—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following14831089

Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query14921100

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text14861110
LMArena Creative Writing14901094
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723595
LMArena Multi-Turn14891105

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 3.2 3B costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Llama 3.2 3B?

Llama 3.2 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.2 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Llama 3.2 3B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.

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