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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs GPT-4.1

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.7

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 9 categories and GPT-4.1 in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 27.8 to 11.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 53.5% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 5.5% for GPT-4.1.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index41.835.7
Released2026-07-212025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$8
Results tracked3852

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
WeirdML39%39%
LMArena Coding14551391
ALE-Bench765.27558.1
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
CadEval—42%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
ARC-AGI-210.3%0.4%
ARC-AGI-153.5%5.5%
Chess Puzzles22%6%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411384
DTBench83.5%68.3%
LMCA37.6%25.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12136.79
SimpleBench—27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval—2.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
ForecastBench—61.5

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%38.3%
LMArena Math14311369
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
Omni-MATH—47.1%
MATH Level 5—83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond83.3%66.9%
LMArena Expert14301364
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
MMLU-Pro—81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.6%
GPQA (HELM)—65.9%

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision12661210
GeoBench—72%

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English14281370
LMArena Chinese14671382
LMArena French14521383
LMArena German14541380
LMArena Japanese14281320
LMArena Korean14061339
LMArena Russian14431377
LMArena Spanish14401375

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
LMArena Instruction Following14201367
IFEval—83.8%

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
LMArena Longer Query14351385
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-4.1
LMArena Text14361383
LMArena Creative Writing14191363
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15591420
LMArena Multi-Turn14451398
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than GPT-4.1?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GPT-4.1?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GPT-4.1 better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GPT-4.1 share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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