Model comparison
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Gemma 7B
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 27.1.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2026-03-03 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1400 | 1048 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1256 | — |
| SciCode | 41.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 52.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 797.73 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1407 | 1042 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.47 | 111.99 |
| 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% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | 54.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |
Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1428 | 1066 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 27.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 80% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |
Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1398 | 1001 |
| GPQA Diamond | 81.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1240 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1461 | 1035 |
| LMArena French | 1424 | 1025 |
| LMArena Russian | 1420 | 993 |
| LMArena German | 1429 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1413 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1392 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1377 | 1017 |
Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1394 | 1022 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1416 | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1401 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1417 | 963 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Gemma 7B?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Gemma 7B better for coding?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Gemma 7B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.