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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Nova Premier 1.0

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

37.7

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 35.4.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
ProviderGoogleAmazon
Noometry Index41.837.7
Released2026-07-212025-04-30
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K10K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$12.50
Results tracked386

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1455—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Nova Premier 1.0: 22.3 (#182)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—44.8%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12—

Math Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Nova Premier 1.0: 31.5 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
Omni-MATH—35%
LMArena Math1431—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.4 (#176)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
MMLU-Pro—72.6%
GPQA (HELM)—51.8%
LMArena Expert1430—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English1428—
LMArena Chinese1467—
LMArena French1452—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1428—
LMArena Korean1406—
LMArena Russian1443—
LMArena Spanish1440—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.9 (#201)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
IFEval—80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#174)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Text1436—
LMArena Creative Writing1419—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
WildBench—78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Nova Premier 1.0?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.

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