Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Llama 4 Maverick

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 2.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.6

Rank #276 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 10 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.4 to 39.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 60.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 8% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index41.830.6
Released2026-07-212025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.65
Results tracked3854

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
SciCode41.3%33.1%
WeirdML39%24.5%
LMArena Coding14551302
ALE-Bench765.27172.97
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1440—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-210.3%0%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%8%
ARC-AGI-153.5%4.4%
CritPt0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411281
DTBench83.5%61.9%
LMCA37.6%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12132.2
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
Chess Puzzles22%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%20.6%
LMArena Math14311299
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond83.3%67%
LMArena Expert14301259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision12661141
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14281269
LMArena Chinese14671277
LMArena French14521258
LMArena German14541291
LMArena Japanese14281207
LMArena Korean14061203
LMArena Russian14431286
LMArena Spanish14401293

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14201267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14351280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14361287
LMArena Creative Writing14191266
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559860
LMArena Multi-Turn14451289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 2.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Llama 4 Maverick share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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