Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs GPT-4o

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4o in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 40.7 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 6.4% for GPT-4o.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GPT-4o specifications
Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index40.828.6
Released2026-03-032024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$10
Results tracked3872

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
WeirdML52.2%25.1%
LMArena Coding14001297
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
GSO—0%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%
ALE-Bench797.73—
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
CritPt1.1%0%
Chess Puzzles25%13%
EnigmaEval3%0.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14071281
DTBench76.8%64.5%
LMCA35%16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47128.97
ForecastBench54.457.7
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LiveBench—55.3%

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%6.4%
LMArena Math14281285
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
MATH Level 5—53.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
GPQA Diamond81.8%49.2%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%2.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%9.6%
LMArena Expert13981250
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
MMLU—88.1%

Multimodal Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
LMArena Vision12401137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English14111283
LMArena Chinese14611277
LMArena French14241304
LMArena German14291282
LMArena Japanese14131257
LMArena Korean13921234
LMArena Russian14201286
LMArena Spanish14211292

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following13771278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query13941289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-4o
LMArena Text14161300
LMArena Creative Writing14011292
LMArena Multi-Turn14171302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than GPT-4o?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GPT-4o?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GPT-4o better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GPT-4o share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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