Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 28.2.
  • Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite specifications
Codellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
ProviderMetaGoogle
Noometry Index30.840.8
Released—2026-03-03
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked1438

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Coding10461400
LMArena WebDev—1256
SciCode—41.9%
WeirdML—52.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
ALE-Bench—797.73
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
DeepResearch Bench—37.3%

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts10321407
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—8.2%
CritPt—1.1%
Chess Puzzles—25%
EnigmaEval—3%
Thematic Generalization—63.3%
DTBench—76.8%
LMCA—35%
Epoch Capabilities Index—144.47
ForecastBench—54.4

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Math10561428
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—27.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—80%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
GPQA Diamond—81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
LMArena Expert—1398

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Vision—1240

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Non-English10111411
LMArena Chinese9761461
LMArena French—1424
LMArena German—1429
LMArena Japanese—1413
LMArena Korean—1392
LMArena Russian—1420
LMArena Spanish—1421

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Instruction Following10281377

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Longer Query10131394

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
LMArena Text10661416
LMArena Creative Writing10321401
LMArena Multi-Turn10151417

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38.

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