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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Sonar

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Sonar Perplexity

38.5

Rank #187 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.2 to 52.6.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $1 for Sonar.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
ProviderGooglePerplexity
Noometry Index41.538.5
Released2026-07-212024-01-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$1
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$1
Results tracked397

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LiveBench Coding—35.1%
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Sonar: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
LiveBench Reasoning—46.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—37.9%
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—
LiveBench—46.9%

Math Sonar leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
LiveBench Math—41.6%
LMArena Math1433—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Sonar: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Sonar: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
LMArena Non-English1427—
LMArena Chinese1469—
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1427—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Russian1443—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
LiveBench Instruction Following—76.2%
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Sonar: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteSonar
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—
LiveBench Language—44.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Sonar?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Sonar?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Sonar lists at $1 and $1.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Sonar better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.

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