Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#133); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 27.8 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 83.5% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 41.5 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2026-07-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1440 |
| SciCode | — | 41.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 39% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1453 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 765.27 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 29.3% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 10% |
Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 83.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 145.13 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 10.3% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 60.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 53.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1441 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| LMCA | — | 37.6% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 26% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 71.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 13% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1433 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1435 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1268 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1427 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1469 |
| LMArena French | — | 1451 |
| LMArena German | — | 1454 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1427 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1407 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1443 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1442 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1420 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1435 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1420 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1559 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1445 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#133); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39.