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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Olmo 3.1 32b Think

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Olmo 3.1 32b Think score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

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

37.9

Rank #191 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Think in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 49.3 to 38.1.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Think has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index37.037.9
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3315

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 37.7 (#189)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Coding13731291
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 25.2 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Hard Prompts13771272
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 36.3 (#168)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Math13731305
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 35.7 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Expert13731295
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.1 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Non-English13691209
LMArena Chinese14041242
LMArena French13881260
LMArena German13891262
LMArena Russian13731193
LMArena Spanish13961289
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 65.6 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Instruction Following13671247
IFEval81%—

Long Context Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.6 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Longer Query13731272
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 46.2 (#220)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3.1 32b Think
LMArena Text13791272
LMArena Creative Writing13671226
LMArena Multi-Turn13661252
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Olmo 3.1 32b Think?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Olmo 3.1 32b Think score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Olmo 3.1 32b Think better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.5 vs 37.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Olmo 3.1 32b Think share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Think has 15.

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