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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Grok 4.1

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Grok 4.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Grok 4.1 xAI

41.5

Rank #134 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Grok 4.1 in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4.1 leads 38.9 to 25.9.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index41.541.5
Released2026-07-212025-11-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3919

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena WebDev14401214
LMArena Coding14531445
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.1 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
APEX-Agents29.3%—
Cybench—39%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts14411435
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Grok 4.1 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Math14331422
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Expert14351417
GPQA Diamond83.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Grok 4.1: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Non-English14271425
LMArena Chinese14691465
LMArena French14511448
LMArena German14541446
LMArena Japanese14271397
LMArena Korean14071407
LMArena Russian14431434
LMArena Spanish14421438

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Instruction Following14201400

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Longer Query14351416

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGrok 4.1
LMArena Text14351437
LMArena Creative Writing14201411
LMArena Multi-Turn14451437
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Grok 4.1?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Grok 4.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Grok 4.1 better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 33.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Grok 4.1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.

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