Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

38.8

Rank #168 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 25.4 to 21.2.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index37.338.8
Released2025-02-05—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked3216

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding13221346
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13241322
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math13091305
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert13051307
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13231275
LMArena Chinese13391304
LMArena French13461328
LMArena German13061283
LMArena Korean13251206
LMArena Russian13281268
LMArena Spanish13131337
LMArena Japanese1302—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.8 (#182)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13051298
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13211312

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text13301311
LMArena Creative Writing13191264
LMArena Multi-Turn13071309
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 37.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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