Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 40.7 to 11.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index40.827.5
Released2026-03-032024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked389

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
LMArena Coding1400—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—
BALROG—27.3%

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval3%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47125.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%2.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
LMArena Math1428—
MATH Level 5—39.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond81.8%41%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1398—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision12401000
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
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), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1377—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Llama 3.2 90B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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