Model comparison
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Grok-3 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Grok-3 mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Grok-3 mini in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok-3 mini leads 42.1 to 25.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 53.5% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 16.5% for Grok-3 mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2026-07-21 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 39% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1453 | 1379 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 49.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | — |
| SciCode | 41.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 765.27 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Grok-3 mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 29.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 10% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 10.3% | 0.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 53.5% | 16.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1441 | 1375 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.13 | 140.35 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 60.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 22% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| DTBench | 83.5% | — |
| LMCA | 37.6% | — |
Math Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1433 | 1386 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 26% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| ProofBench | 13% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 31.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 5.9% |
Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.3% | 76.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1435 | 1395 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 79.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 67.5% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Grok-3 mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1268 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1469 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1451 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1454 | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1427 | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | 1443 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1442 | 1381 |
Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1420 | 1357 |
| IFEval | — | 95.1% |
Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1372 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1435 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1420 | 1342 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1445 | 1355 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.5% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1559 | — |
| WildBench | — | 65.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Grok-3 mini?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Grok-3 mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Grok-3 mini better for coding?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Grok-3 mini share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.