Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Command A+
32
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
48
Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Command A+ only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Multimodal
+13.4 difference
Command A+
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
$2.5 / $10
$0.25 / $1.5
272 t/s
205 t/s
0.25s
7.50s
128K
1M
Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Command A+ only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 48 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.2 against 59.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is CharXiv, 52.7% to 73.2%.
Command A+ is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.50 input / $10.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.25 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens for Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. That is roughly 6.7x on output cost alone. Command A+ is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Command A+.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 48 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is CharXiv, where the scores are 52.7% and 73.2%.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.2 versus 59.8. Inside this category, CharXiv is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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