Model comparison
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Ring-2.6-1T
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#144); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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Ant Group (inclusionAI)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Ring-2.6-1T in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Ring-2.6-1T leads 26.1 to 22.9.
- Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Ant Group (inclusionAI) | |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 36.9 |
| Released | 2026-03-03 | 2026-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Ring-2.6-1T leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 41.9% | 42.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 797.73 | 432.57 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1256 | — |
| WeirdML | 52.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1400 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Ring-2.6-1T leads
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 1.1% | 3.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 67.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8.2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 25% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 63.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1407 | — |
| DTBench | 76.8% | — |
| LMCA | 35% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.47 | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.4 | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 27.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 80% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1428 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 81.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1398 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1240 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1461 | — |
| LMArena French | 1424 | — |
| LMArena German | 1429 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1413 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1392 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1420 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1377 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1394 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1401 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1417 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Ring-2.6-1T?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#144); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?
Ring-2.6-1T scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Ring-2.6-1T share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.