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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads with 13.9% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite offers 858.1K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 405B Instruct. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is $1.28 cheaper per million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available on 8 providers. Overall, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite was created as the most efficient option in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed to provide cutting-edge capabilities with minimal computational overhead. Built for applications where cost and latency are primary concerns, it extends advanced multimodal understanding to resource-conscious deployments.
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Llama 3.1 405B was developed as Meta's largest open-source language model, designed to provide frontier-level capabilities with 405 billion parameters. Built to demonstrate that open-source models can match proprietary systems in capability, it enables researchers and developers to experiment with and deploy a powerful foundation model without licensing restrictions.
10 months newer
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-06-17
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.40($1.28 cheaper)
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Input:$0.89
Output:$0.89
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Average Score:64.6%(+13.9%)
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Average Score:50.7%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-01-01
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
1 providers
Throughput: 5.69 tok/s
Latency: 0.44ms
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Avg Score:64.6%(+13.9%)
Providers:1
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Avg Score:50.7%
Providers:8