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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Gemma 3 1B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 41.9 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index40.821.1
Released2026-03-032025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked384

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
LMArena Coding1400—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles25%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%1.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
LMArena Math1428—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond81.8%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1398—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1411—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1424—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1413—
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Russian1420—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Instruction Following1377—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Gemma 3 1B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Gemma 3 1B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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