Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Llama 3.3 70B: Detailed Comparison
Choosing between Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google) and
Llama 3.3 70B (Meta) comes down to three things:
per-token pricing, context window, and which capability matters most for your workload.
Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.30/M input vs
$0.59/M for Llama 3.3 70B;
context windows are 1.0M vs
128K tokens. Detailed breakdown below.
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.3 70B |
|---|
| Provider | Google | Meta |
|---|
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2024-12-06 |
|---|
| Input price |
$0.30/M |
$0.59/M |
| Output price |
$2.50/M |
$0.79/M |
| Cached input |
$0.0750/M |
— |
| Context window |
1.0M |
128K |
| Max output |
66K |
8K |
| Modalities |
text image audio video |
text |
| Tokenizer |
gemini |
llama-3 |
Capability matrix
| Capability | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.3 70B |
|---|
| function calling |
Yes |
Yes |
| json mode |
Yes |
Yes |
| vision |
Yes |
No |
| streaming |
Yes |
Yes |
| audio |
Yes |
No |
| video |
Yes |
No |
| tool use |
No |
Yes |
Benchmark comparison
Higher is better for all benchmarks shown.
| Benchmark | Category | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.3 70B | Δ |
|---|
| MMLU |
general |
— |
86.0 |
— |
| HumanEval |
coding |
— |
88.4 |
— |
Per-call cost on typical workloads
| Workload (in/out tokens) | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 3.3 70B | Cheaper by |
|---|
| Standard chat (1K / 500) |
$0.001550 |
$0.000985 |
Llama 3.3 70B by $0.000565 |
| RAG (4K / 500) |
$0.002450 |
$0.002755 |
Gemini 2.5 Flash by $0.000305 |
| Long doc (20K / 1K) |
$0.008500 |
$0.012590 |
Gemini 2.5 Flash by $0.004090 |
| Very long context (100K / 2K) |
$0.033750 |
$0.060185 |
Gemini 2.5 Flash by $0.026435 |
When to choose Gemini 2.5 Flash over Llama 3.3 70B
- Per-token input cost is 49% lower — meaningful for high-volume workloads.
- Larger context window (1.0M vs 128K) — relevant when whole documents or long histories must fit in a single call.
- Supports vision — Llama 3.3 70B does not.
- Supports audio — Llama 3.3 70B does not.
- Supports video — Llama 3.3 70B does not.
When to choose Llama 3.3 70B over Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Supports tool use — Gemini 2.5 Flash does not.
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