Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs GPT-5.4 Pro

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.8 to 40.4 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite costs 120× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI

58.8

Rank #16 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 Pro in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 Pro leads 71.0 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 27.7% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 82.5% for GPT-5.4 Pro.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $180 for GPT-5.4 Pro.
  • GPT-5.4 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GPT-5.4 Pro specifications
Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index40.458.8
Released2026-03-032026-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$30
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$180
Results tracked3816

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 Pro leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), GPT-5.4 Pro: 42.6 (#89)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
WeirdML52.2%57.4%
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
LMArena Coding1400—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 Pro leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), GPT-5.4 Pro: 71.0 (#10)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
CritPt1.1%30%
Chess Puzzles25%58.6%
EnigmaEval3%23.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45159.12
ARC-AGI-2—83.3%
SimpleBench—74.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
ARC-AGI-1—94.5%
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math GPT-5.4 Pro leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), GPT-5.4 Pro: 72.0 (#17)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%82.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4—58.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
LMArena Math1427—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—50%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—37.5%

Knowledge GPT-5.4 Pro leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), GPT-5.4 Pro: 68.3 (#6)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
GPQA Diamond81.8%94.6%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%44.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%8.3%
SimpleQA Verified—46.3%
LMArena Expert1397—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Non-English1410—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1423—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1393—
LMArena Russian1420—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1376—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than GPT-5.4 Pro?

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.8 to 40.4 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite costs 120× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GPT-5.4 Pro?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 Pro lists at $30 and $180.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or GPT-5.4 Pro better for coding?

GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.6 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and GPT-5.4 Pro share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 Pro has 16.

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