Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick

Gemini 3.7 Flash and Llama 4 Maverick measured on communication & professionalism, on the same veterinary examination items, run on VetEval's own infrastructure at fixed decoding settings and scored by a panel that never grades its own model.

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 12.6 points above Llama 4 Maverick on Communication & Professionalism, but their confidence intervals overlap, on this evidence the two cannot be separated.

Gemini 3.7 Flash and Llama 4 Maverick carry a confirmed safety cap, which limits the Index regardless of how the clinical categories scored.

Side-by-side comparison of Gemini 3.7 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick across the VetEval Index, each scoring category, the safety gate, cost and latency.
Measure	Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle · proprietary	Llama 4 MaverickMeta · open weights
VetEval Index	28.2, best in this row27.2–29.1	19.018.1–19.8
Rank	1–3shared rank	8–9shared rank
Clinical Diagnosis & Differential	86.6, best in this row83.0–90.3	79.575.2–83.8
Pharmacology & Dosing	73.5, best in this row68.0–78.9	60.054.2–65.7
Species-Specific Knowledge	72.0, best in this row65.0–79.1	60.253.0–67.5
Triage & Emergency	83.0, best in this row77.3–88.7	67.460.4–74.5
Preventive / Public Health / Zoonoses	82.7, best in this row76.8–88.5	69.161.1–77.2
Communication & Professionalism	85.1, best in this row76.7–93.5	72.562.5–82.5
Safety gate	Capped×0.40	Capped×0.40
Cost per 1,000 items	$6.80list price at run time	$1.29, best in this rowlist price at run time
Median time per question	2.8s, best in this rowexcluding retries	26.9sexcluding retries
Weights	ProprietaryGoogle	OpenMeta

A shaded cell is the best value in its row, and the bar shows the score out of 100. The line under the Index and each category is the 95% confidence interval, where two intervals overlap, the ordering is not something this measurement establishes. Cost is list price at the time of the run and is not part of the Index.

What this comparison does not tell you

These scores describe performance on veterinary examination items. They are not a certification, and no result here licenses a model for clinical use.
The Index weights categories for a general caseload. Every per-category score is published above so you can weigh them for yours instead, or compare on a single category using the control above.
Cost and latency are measured at run time and move separately from the scores. A model that is cheaper today may not be next month.

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Scope. VetEval measures model performance on veterinary examination items. It is not clinical advice, and no result here licenses a model for clinical use.