Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Olmo 7b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

30.3

Rank #295 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 25.8.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index40.830.3
Released2026-03-03—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3810

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding14001016
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1407993
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math14281018
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1398—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1411977
LMArena Chinese14611014
LMArena Russian1420947
LMArena French1424—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1413—
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1377978

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text14161032
LMArena Creative Writing1401990
LMArena Multi-Turn14171007

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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