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Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Llama 4 Maverick

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 1.9× 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 . 33 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 10 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 38.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 20.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 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 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index40.830.9
Released2026-03-032025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.65
Results tracked3854

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
SciCode41.9%33.1%
WeirdML52.2%24.5%
LMArena Coding14001302
ALE-Bench797.73172.97
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1256—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%8%
CritPt1.1%0%
EnigmaEval3%0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts14071281
DTBench76.8%61.9%
LMCA35%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47132.2
ForecastBench54.457.5
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
Chess Puzzles25%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%20.6%
LMArena Math14281299
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond81.8%67%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%5.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%8.2%
LMArena Expert13981259
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision12401142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14111269
LMArena Chinese14611277
LMArena French14241259
LMArena German14291291
LMArena Japanese14131207
LMArena Korean13921203
LMArena Russian14201286
LMArena Spanish14211293

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following13771267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query13941280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14161287
LMArena Creative Writing14011267
LMArena Multi-Turn14171289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 1.9× 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 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 26.6 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 4 Maverick share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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