Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Gemma 7B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.2 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index41.530.0
Released2026-07-212024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3927

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Coding14531048
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411042
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13111.99
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Math14331066
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Expert14351001
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1427999
LMArena Chinese14691035
LMArena French14511025
LMArena Russian1443993
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1427—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14201017

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query14351022

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Text14351056
LMArena Creative Writing14201024
LMArena Multi-Turn1445963
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Gemma 7B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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