Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs 6.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 10.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 74% for GPT-5.4.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GPT-5.4 specifications
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index41.559.4
Released2026-07-212026-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$15
Results tracked3968

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
LMArena WebDev14401465
SciCode41.3%56.6%
WeirdML39%77.7%
LMArena Coding14531497
ALE-Bench765.271,607
SWE-bench Verified—76.9%
DeepSWE—51.8%
GSO—31.4%
MirrorCode—15.6%
AlgoTune—1.85

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
APEX-Agents29.3%52.4%
Terminal-Bench—81.8%
τ²-bench Banking—39.4%
DeepResearch Bench—35.1%
PostTrainBench—19%
GBAEval—45.1%
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search—1197
METR Time Horizons—74.3%
Vending-Bench 2—6,144

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
ARC-AGI-210.3%74%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%91.3%
ARC-AGI-153.5%93.7%
CritPt0%23.4%
Chess Puzzles22%44%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411485
Mystery Game Puzzles19%37%
DTBench83.5%94.4%
LMCA37.6%52%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13156.81
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.8%
EnigmaEval—16%
Thematic Generalization—80%
EBR-Bench—25.4%
ForecastBench—59.5

Math GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
GPQA Diamond83.3%93.3%
LMArena Expert14351507
Humanity's Last Exam—36.2%
SimpleQA Verified—45.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%

Multimodal GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
LMArena Vision12681303
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.1%
Furniture Assembly—37.5%
LMArena Document—1471

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
LMArena Non-English14271465
LMArena Chinese14691519
LMArena French14511493
LMArena German14541472
LMArena Japanese14271485
LMArena Korean14071448
LMArena Russian14431480
LMArena Spanish14421454

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
LMArena Instruction Following14201469

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
LMArena Longer Query14351473
CL-bench—27.9%
CL-bench Life—21.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGPT-5.4
LMArena Text14351469
LMArena Creative Writing14201439
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15591840
LMArena Multi-Turn14451482
EQ-Bench 4—1272

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs 6.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GPT-5.4?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or GPT-5.4 better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and GPT-5.4 share?

38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 has 68.

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