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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Gemma 2 27B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.2

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 39.5 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 1.4% for Gemma 2 27B.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.65 / $0.65 for Gemma 2 27B.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 8K.
  • Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index40.429.2
Released2026-03-032024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M8K
Max output66K2K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.65
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.65
Results tracked3834

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
LMArena Coding14001211
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—42.8%
LiveBench Coding—36%
BigCodeBench Complete—52.5%
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Gemma 2 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts14071199
DTBench76.8%48%
LMCA35%7.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45122.06
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—28.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—47.9%
ForecastBench54.4—
LiveBench—38.2%

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%1.4%
LMArena Math14271212
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
LiveBench Math—26.5%
MATH Level 5—27.9%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
GPQA Diamond81.8%36.5%
LMArena Expert13971172
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Confabulations—27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
MMLU—75.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Gemma 2 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
LMArena Non-English14101217
LMArena Chinese14611221
LMArena French14231246
LMArena German14291209
LMArena Japanese14111175
LMArena Korean13931174
LMArena Russian14201234
LMArena Spanish14201228

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
LMArena Instruction Following13761206
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.1%

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
LMArena Longer Query13941231

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 2 27B
LMArena Text14161231
LMArena Creative Writing14011241
LMArena Multi-Turn14171224
LiveBench Language—32.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Gemma 2 27B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Gemma 2 27B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Gemma 2 27B lists at $0.65 and $0.65.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Gemma 2 27B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.

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