Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 4.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 10 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 10.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 91.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 4.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.130.9
Released2026-07-212025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.65
Results tracked4654

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
SciCode52.7%33.1%
WeirdML56.1%24.5%
LMArena Coding14911302
ALE-Bench715.52172.97
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1538—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-260.4%0%
NYT Connections (extended)89%8%
ARC-AGI-191.2%4.4%
CritPt10.6%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851281
DTBench95.5%61.9%
LMCA44.9%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25132.2
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
Chess Puzzles43%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%20.6%
LMArena Math15051299
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond94.1%67%
LMArena Expert14881259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision12981142
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14691269
LMArena Chinese15311277
LMArena French15041259
LMArena German14781291
LMArena Japanese14761207
LMArena Korean14311203
LMArena Russian14871286
LMArena Spanish14751293

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14661267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14741280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14791287
LMArena Creative Writing14651267
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604860
LMArena Multi-Turn14811289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 4.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash 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 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Llama 4 Maverick share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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