Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

28.8

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 41.7 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $1.50 for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index40.428.8
Released2026-03-032025-10-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.017
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.11
Results tracked388

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
LMArena Coding1400—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
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 Index144.45—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%2.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
Omni-MATH—20.9%
LMArena Math1427—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond81.8%28.3%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
LMArena Expert1397—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1410—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1423—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1393—
LMArena Russian1420—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1376—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
WildBench—67%
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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