whatmodel.sh / Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is a closed-weights language model from Google, released March 2026.

66.9±1.0#117 of 719 LLMsfrom 11 benchmark results across 6 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, out of 828 with a score, then more from Google.

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132Step 3.7 Flash (198B-A11B) StepFun67±1api $0.44/M +local~104GB2026-05
133Gemma 4 31B Google67±1api $0.19/M +local~21GB2026-04
134Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google67±1api $0.56/M2026-03
135Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B-A3B) Alibaba67±2api $0.60/M +local~27GB2026-02
136Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (03-25) Google67±2comparison only2025-04
more from Google
9Gemini 4 Argon (limited preview) Google82±1limited preview2026-09
23Gemini 3.8 Flash Google77±1api $1.50/M2026-09
32Gemini 3.7 Flash Google76±1api $1.50/M2026-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #130 of 300 * · 4.5% of its score · 1 test

Beats o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro here, though they rank higher overall. Trails SmolLM3 3B, Jamba 1.5 Large, GPT-4o (2024-05-13) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
K-BrowseComp-Verified (Korean web-browsing agent questions, pass@1)11.3% ✎▃····█··▃█·▃ beats 2/8very hard · avg 3.4%▇▇ 4.5%typical
coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #156 of 458 * · 15% of its score · 1 test

Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro here, though they rank higher overall. Trails QwQ-32B-Preview, Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512, Phi-4-reasoning 14B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena WebDev (Code Arena)1255.7 ✎▁▂▄▃▅█▄▇▆▄▁▁ beats 15/119avg 981▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15%sharp
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #76 of 393 * · 8.2% of its score · 1 test

Beats LongCat 2.0 (1.6T-A48B), Mistral Large 4 (public preview), Inkling Small (266B-A12B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Gemma 4 12B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena (text)1432.7 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 288/379avg 1268▇▇▇ 8.2%blunt
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #115 of 398 · 39% of its score · 3 tests

Beats Claude Sonnet 4.6, MiniMax-M3, MiMo-V2.5 (310B-A15B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Olmo 3.1 32B Think, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Qwen3-VL 32B Thinking here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
FrontierMath tiers 1–3 v227.7% ✎▂··▁▁▃▄▄█▅▃▃ beats 19/82very hard · avg 1.2%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 31%sharp · at its level
OTIS mock AIME 2024–202580.0% ✎▃▃▄▃▃▃▇▇█▃▂▅ beats 115/193very hard · avg 8.5%▇▇ 6.0%sharp · noisy
MathConstraint full release, no tools (329 instances)24.9% ✎▄··▄▄·▄▄█▄·▄ beats 2/8very hard · avg 11%▇ 1.8%at its level
vision & documents▁▁▃▂▁▃▄▂▆▇█▄ #60 of 147 * · 18% of its score · 2 tests

Beats DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp), GPT-5, Inkling Small (266B-A12B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Qwen3.6 Flash, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
CharXiv (reasoning questions) lab73.2% ✎▃·▃·▃▃▃·▃▃█▅ beats 3/11medium · avg 40%▇▇▇▇▇ 12%at its level
Arena vision (style controlled)1234.6 ✎▁▁▂▂▂▂▄▅▅▆██ beats 91/145avg 1068▇▇ 5.7%blunt
web search▂▃▂▆▄█▃▃▁▁·▁ #75 of 80 * · 4.5% of its score · 1 test

Trails GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18), Mistral Small 3.1 24B (2503) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
K-BrowseComp-Verified (Korean web-browsing agent questions, pass@1)11.3% ✎▃····█··▃█·▃ beats 2/8very hard · avg 3.4%▇▇ 4.5%typical
other tests3 not in a task · 16% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GPQA Diamond81.8% ✎▁▁▁▁▂▄▆▄▅▇█▅ beats 130/208hard · avg 40%▇▇▇▇▇ 12%sharp · at its level
Chess Puzzles (Epoch)20.0% ✎█▁▁▁▁▂▁▄▂▂▁▁ beats 82/135very hard · avg 5.9%▇ 3.2%sharp · noisy
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)91.8% ✎▁▂▁▂▅█▃▃▄▃▁▁ beats 61/98very easy · avg 90%▇ 0.0%blunt

$ where to run it

Through an API

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$ how the score was worked out · Epoch AI — internal evaluatio… 53%, LMArena leaderboard dataset 29%, Google DeepMind Gemini model… 12% and 3 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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