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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Gemma 3 1B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index41.521.1
Released2026-07-212025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked394

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles22%0%
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%1.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond83.3%19.9%
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1427—
LMArena Chinese1469—
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1427—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Russian1443—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Gemma 3 1B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Gemma 3 1B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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