Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 52.3 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 40.8 |
| Released | — | 2026-03-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1256 |
| SciCode | — | 41.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1400 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 797.73 |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 37.3% |
Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1407 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 25% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 3% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 63.3% |
| DTBench | — | 76.8% |
| LMCA | — | 35% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 144.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 54.4 |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 27.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 80% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1428 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 81.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1398 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1240 |
Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1411 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1461 |
| LMArena French | — | 1424 |
| LMArena German | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1413 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1392 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1420 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1421 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1377 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1394 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1416 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1401 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1417 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (37.6 vs 37.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38.