Gemini 4 Argon vs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Updated October 21, 2026. 25 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 25 shared
Decision reading
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a coding score, 81.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama 3.2 3B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct has the edge where output tokens cost 30.1x less.
Model AGemini 4 ArgonGoogle81.0/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BLlama 3.2 3B InstructMeta LlamaNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 25
- Gemini 4 Argon only
- 67
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct only
- 9
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon leads, 52.6 against 5.7.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a Design Arena: websites result, 1315.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a Vals Index result, 69.2%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Gemini 4 Argon $0.0070, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 4 Argon 81.0 from 5 benchmarks, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- General, 76.5 points apart on average over 12 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Text: Chinese: Gemini 4 Argon 1611 against Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 1017, 97.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 4 Argon $10.00 against Llama 3.2 3B Instruct $0.3325 per million output tokens, 30.1x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 4 Argon takes 1.05M tokens, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 131K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 4 Argon | Bars | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 4 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| General | 12 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 25 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 89.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1678 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 57.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 91.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 68.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 57.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 56.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 21.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 77.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 8.3% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| SciCode | 61.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierCode | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierSWE | 55.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2100.1 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1546 | 1098 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1556 | 1103 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1692 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1643 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 52.6 | 5.7 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 166.4 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1147 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench research | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench browser | 92.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 69.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 44.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 65.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 44.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 54.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 27.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 76.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 44.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Vals Science Index | 55.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 52.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 4.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | 0.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 21.1% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| APEX-Agents | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 10.1% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $13,718 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 95.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 45.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 25.5% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 57.1% | 5.3% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 96.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 91.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Chess puzzles | 59.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 64.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| EBR-bench | 64.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1546 | 1095 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1550 | 1090 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1548 | 1141 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 3.3 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 3.3% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 86.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 78.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| ProofBench | 99.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1536 | 1126 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1557 | 1128 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 88.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 58.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 34.7% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 76.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1548 | 1106 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1555 | 1104 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1548 | 1115 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1525 | 1074 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1315 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1331 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1376 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1337 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1389 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1328 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench design | 73.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 69.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 85.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 69.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 53.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 87.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 26.2% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 79.7% | 4.3% | Gemini 4 Argon |
| DTBench | 97.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMCA | 63.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| Furniture assembly | 72.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text | 1532 | 1110 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1534 | 1089 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1527 | 1094 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: English | 1538 | 1180 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1522 | 1019 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1611 | 1017 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1056 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1503 | Not measured | Only Gemini 4 Argon measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1534 | 949 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1556 | 1105 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1547 | 1100 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1529 | 1096 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1527 | 1083 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 4 Argon$0.0070Fits in one request
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct$0.0002Fits in one request
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 4 Argon$0.130Fits in one request
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct$0.0035Fits in one request
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 4 Argon$0.500Fits in one request
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct$0.013Exceeds the context window
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 4 Argon | Meta Llama 3.2 3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | October 13, 2026 | September 25, 2024 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.0505 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.3325 |
| Coding index | 81.0 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Llama 3.2 3B Instruct for coding?
Only Gemini 4 Argon has a coding score, 81.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama 3.2 3B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct has the edge where output tokens cost 30.1x less.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 4 Argon or Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?
Gemini 4 Argon costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs $0.0505 and $0.3325. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 4 Argon or Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?
Gemini 4 Argon, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 4 Argon vs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct comparison based on?
25 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 4 Argon's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Llama 3.2 3B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.