Gemini 3 Pro vs Llama 5
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Gemini 3 Pro by Google against Llama 5 by Meta across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Gemini 3 Pro
Rey del contextode Google contexto king con un industry-leading 2M-token window y el #1 LMSYS Arena ranking, diseñado específicamente para largo-documento y multimodal razonamiento.
$2.00 / 1M
$12.00 / 1M
2M tokens
76.2%
Llama 5
Automejora recursivade Meta insignia abierto modelo con nativo agente training, recursive self-improvement, y 5M token contexto.
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
5M tokens
74%
Diferencias Clave de un Vistazo
- Llama 5 is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Llama 5 has a larger context window (5M vs 2M tokens).
- Gemini 3 Pro is faster at 118 tok/s vs 65 tok/s.
- Gemini 3 Pro leads on SWE-bench coding (76.2% vs 74.0%).
| Característica | Gemini 3 Pro | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 62 | 94 |
Provider | Meta | |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $2.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $12.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $1.74 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 2M tokens~3,000 A4 pages of text | 5M tokens~7,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 66K | 128K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 118 tok/s | 65 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 76.2% | 74% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 73.5% | 84% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.20 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
¿Quién gana en cada área?
At-a-glance decision frameworkPuntuaciones de Benchmarks Verificadas
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
Latencia y Tiempo de Respuesta
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Simulador Interactivo de Costos de Tokens
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Gemini 3 Pro · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Industry-leading 2M-token ventana de contexto (10x la mayoría de rivals)
- #1 LMSYS Chatbot Arena ranking un launch
- nativo multimodal entrada un través de texto, imagen, audio, y video
- 90% cached-contexto discount para repeated largo inputs
Considerations & Trade-offs
- mayor rates apply por encima del 200K estándar nivel
- salida precio ($12/1M) por encima de GPT-5.1 para short tareas
Llama 5 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- 5 millones token contexto con nativo multi-audio/video comprensión
- Bucle de entrenamiento de automejora recursiva
- Completely de pesos abiertos con empresarial comercial license
Considerations & Trade-offs
- complejo MoE servicio requirements
- Los cambios del tokenizador de 4B requieren actualizar entornos de ajuste heredados
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Gemini 3 Pro | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $2.40 | $0.00 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 60K | 40K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 31K | 20K |
Especificaciones Técnicas
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Característica | Gemini 3 Pro | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | models/gemini-3-pro | meta-llama/Llama-5 |
| API Protocol | Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI |
| Release Date | 2025-11 | 2026-04 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | January 2025 | January 2026 |
| Architecture | Sparse Multimodal MoE | Mixture-of-Experts with recursive self-improvement (~600B total, 40-80B active) |
| Parameters | Confidential | 600B+ total (~40-80B active) |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens | Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales) |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.2/1M with configurable TTL | Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost) |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 372 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 1290 GB VRAM (Native BF16) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control |
| Input Modalities | text, vision, audio, video | text, vision, video, audio |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Gemini 3 Pro vs Llama 5: Respuestas Rápidas (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Gemini 3 Pro or Llama 5?
Llama 5 is more intelligent. It scores 94 compared with 62 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Gemini 3 Pro is faster, generating 118 tokens per second compared with 65 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Llama 5 is cheaper at $0.00 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $1.74 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
Llama 5 has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.85s compared with 1.80s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Llama 5 has a larger context window, supporting 5M tokens compared with 2M tokens.
Veredicto
Choose Gemini 3 Pro for largo-documento análisis, completo-codebase razonamiento, y multimodal tareas needing 500k+ tokens, or choose Llama 5 for autónomo de código abierto multi-agente systems, profundo software refactorización, y de frontera investigación.
Preguntas frecuentes
Which is cheaper: Gemini 3 Pro or Llama 5?+
Gemini 3 Pro costs $2/1M input and $12/1M output tokens, while Llama 5 costs $0/1M input and $0/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Gemini 3 Pro or Llama 5?+
Gemini 3 Pro supports 2M tokens whereas Llama 5 supports 5M tokens.
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