Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Comparison

Comparing Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

3 benchmarks

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is better at 3 benchmarks (GPQA, MATH, MMLU-Pro).

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B costs less

For input processing, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B ($0.07/1M tokens) is 2.9x cheaper than Llama 3.3 70B Instruct ($0.20/1M tokens).

For output processing, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B ($0.30/1M tokens) is 1.5x more expensive than Llama 3.3 70B Instruct ($0.20/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is more expensive than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Input tokens$0.07

Output tokens$0.30

Best providerGoogle

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Input tokens$0.20

Output tokens$0.20

Best providerLambda

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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

62.0B diff

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has 62.0B more parameters than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B, making it 775.0% larger.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

8.0Bparameters

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

70.0Bparameters

8.0B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

70.0B

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B accepts 1,048,576 input tokens compared to Llama 3.3 70B Instruct's 128,000 tokens. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct can generate longer responses up to 128,000 tokens, while Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is limited to 8,192 tokens.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Input1,048,576 tokens

Output8,192 tokens

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B supports multimodal inputs, whereas Llama 3.3 70B Instruct does not.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is licensed under a proprietary license, while Llama 3.3 70B Instruct uses Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Proprietary

Closed source

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B was released on 2024-03-15, while Llama 3.3 70B Instruct was released on 2024-12-06.

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is 9 months newer than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Mar 15, 2024

2.0 years ago

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Dec 6, 2024

1.3 years ago

8mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-10-01, while Llama 3.3 70B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B's training data extends to 2024-10-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Llama 3.3 70B Instruct's cutoff date.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Oct 2024

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

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Provider Availability

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is available from Google. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is available from Lambda, DeepInfra, Hyperbolic, Groq, Sambanova, Cerebras, Bedrock, Together, Fireworks. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.