Model comparison
Gemma 3 4B vs Llama 3-70B
Gemma 3 4B and Llama 3-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 28.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3-70B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3-70B leads 20.8 to 11.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B and 40.6% for Llama 3-70B.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 28.1 | 28.8 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1230 | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69% |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 19.6% | — |
| Cybench | — | 5% |
Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 25.2% | 35.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1253 | 1195 |
| DTBench | 50.9% | 54.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 116.02 | 122.93 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMCA | 2.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |
Math Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.5% | 4.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1239 | 1218 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 22.6% |
Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 23.2% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1149 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.4% | — |
| MMLU | — | 79.3% |
Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1273 | 1142 |
| LMArena German | 1281 | 1169 |
| LMArena Russian | 1294 | 1159 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1114 |
| LMArena French | — | 1232 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1241 |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1194 |
Long Context Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1273 | 1174 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1291 | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1271 | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1255 | 1223 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 4B better than Llama 3-70B?
Gemma 3 4B and Llama 3-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 28.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3 4B or Llama 3-70B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (35.9 vs 35.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and Llama 3-70B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.