Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 3.6× 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 . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 9 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 40.7 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 5.1% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 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 128K.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index40.830.6
Released2026-03-032024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.32
Results tracked3843

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SciCode41.9%26%
WeirdML52.2%14.4%
LMArena Coding14001268
LMArena WebDev1256—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—
BALROG—23%

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
CritPt1.1%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14071257
DTBench76.8%59.5%
LMCA35%17.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47127.33
ForecastBench54.458.6
SimpleBench—19.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LiveBench—50.2%

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%5.1%
LMArena Math14281267
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
LiveBench Math—42.2%
MATH Level 5—41.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond81.8%47.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%4.1%
LMArena Expert13981225
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Confabulations—22.8%
MMLU—86.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English14111236
LMArena Chinese14611217
LMArena French14241281
LMArena German14291251
LMArena Japanese14131150
LMArena Korean13921143
LMArena Russian14201252
LMArena Spanish14211270

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13771242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13941256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text14161274
LMArena Creative Writing14011250
LMArena Multi-Turn14171280
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 3.6× 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 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 31.0 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 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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