Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index41.527.5
Released2026-07-212024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked399

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
BALROG—27.3%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13125.5
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%2.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—
MATH Level 5—39.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond83.3%41%
LMArena Expert1435—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision12681000
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
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), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Llama 3.2 90B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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