Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.8 to 10.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 92.5% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 4.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.230.9
Released2026-05-192025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$9$0.65
Results tracked5454

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
SciCode53.1%33.1%
WeirdML62.6%24.5%
LMArena Coding14921302
ALE-Bench911.02172.97
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1499—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 4 Maverick leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
APEX-Agents27.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-272.1%0%
SimpleBench76.7%27.7%
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%8%
ARC-AGI-192.5%4.4%
CritPt13.1%0%
EnigmaEval25.4%0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts14881281
DTBench94.7%61.9%
LMCA47.1%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46132.2
ForecastBench5957.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
Chess Puzzles50%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%20.6%
LMArena Math15041299
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%0.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
ProofBench31%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond92.8%67%
LMArena Expert14951259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision13101142
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14761269
LMArena Chinese15261277
LMArena French14901259
LMArena German14921291
LMArena Japanese14861207
LMArena Korean14511203
LMArena Russian14931286
LMArena Spanish14801293

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14671267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14821280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14821287
LMArena Creative Writing14701267
LMArena Multi-Turn14811289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Llama 4 Maverick share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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