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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

GoogleCurrentReleased Mar 3, 2026
Data verified
Overall Score
50.83Public #111 of 200Verified #61 of 99
Arena Elo
1432
Eligible category ranks
1of 8
Price (1M tokens)
$0.25 in / $1.5 out
API pricing
Speed
205tok/s
Context
1M

Evidence coverage

20 of 321 tracked benchmarks are published. 3 are verified and 17 provisional. 6 of 8 categories are measured.

Updated July 20, 2026Methodology
Published / tracked
20 / 321
Verified
3
Provisional
17
Categories with evidence
6 / 8

Evidence by category

  • Agentic6 benchmarks
    Mixed evidence
  • Coding3 benchmarks
    Mixed evidence
  • Reasoning2 benchmarks
    Reported
  • Knowledge6 benchmarks
    Reported
  • Math0 benchmarks
    Not measured
  • Multilingual0 benchmarks
    Not measured
  • Multimodal2 benchmarks
    Mixed evidence
  • Inst. Following1 benchmark
    Reported
ProprietaryNon-Reasoning
Confidence:
Low
base

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ranks #111 out of 200 models on the public leaderboard with an overall score of 50.83/100. It also ranks #61 out of 99 on the verified leaderboard. While not a frontier model, it offers specific advantages depending on the use case.

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is a proprietary model with a 1M token context window. It processes queries without explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, offering faster response times and lower token usage.

This profile currently has 20 of 321 tracked benchmarks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated benchmark rows publicly, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.

Its strongest category is Coding (#95). This performance profile makes it particularly well-suited for software development and code generation tasks.

Peer position

Exact provisional scores and ranks for the closest listed peers. A score can appear before a model clears the evidence threshold for a rank, so equal scores can have different rank states.

Range 50.8251.25

  1. GLM-4.7-Flash
    Z.AI
    #10651.25
    GLM-4.7-Flash is #106 with a score of 51.25.
    Compare
  2. Grok 4.1 Fast
    xAI
    #10751.25
    Grok 4.1 Fast is #107 with a score of 51.25.
    Compare
  3. GPT-4.1
    OpenAI
    #10851.11
    GPT-4.1 is #108 with a score of 51.11.
    Compare
  4. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
    NVIDIA
    #10950.97
    Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is #109 with a score of 50.97.
    Compare
  5. Step 3.7 Flash
    StepFun
    #11050.87
    Step 3.7 Flash is #110 with a score of 50.87.
    Compare
  6. Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteCurrent model
    Google
    #11150.83
    Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is #111 with a score of 50.83.
  7. Llama 3 70B
    Meta
    #11250.82
    Llama 3 70B is #112 with a score of 50.82.
    Compare

Category percentile

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Relative position among models eligible for each sourced category. A higher percentile means a stronger position within that category's ranked cohort; 100 is highest.

  1. Coding22%
    Eligible cohort rank #95 of 122Category score 44.2

Category evidence

Scores and ranks appear only where this model has published benchmark evidence. Categories without displayable source records remain not measured.

Category scores, ranks, weighting, benchmark coverage, and evidence status
CategoryScore
AgenticRank Not rankedWeight 22%6 benchmarksMixed sources49.6
CodingRank #95 of 122Percentile 22ndWeight 20%3 benchmarksMixed sources44.2
ReasoningRank Not rankedWeight 17%2 benchmarksReported70.8
KnowledgeRank Not rankedWeight 12%6 benchmarksReported34.5
MathWeight 5%0 benchmarksNot measuredNot measured
MultilingualWeight 7%0 benchmarksNot measuredNot measured
MultimodalRank Not rankedWeight 12%2 benchmarksMixed sources47.9
Inst. FollowingRank Not rankedWeight 5%1 benchmarkReported79.0

Chatbot Arena performance

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Chatbot Arena Elo, confidence interval, and vote count by evaluation view
ViewEloConfidence intervalVotes
Text Overall1432Not availableNot available

Benchmark Details

Rows below have a displayable published verification record. Each source link and provenance note remains in the page HTML while its category is closed. Source-unverified manual rows and generated rows stay hidden.

Agentic6 benchmarks
AA Agentic IndexReported

Artificial Analysis Agentic Index

6.2%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
APEX-Agents-AAReported
12.2%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
τ²-bench resultsReported

τ²-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation

31.3%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
GDPval-AAReported

GDPval-AA normalized

7.1%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
GDPval-AAReported
642Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Gert LabsBenchmark exact

Gert Labs Composite Game Benchmark

38.46%Display only
Source: Gert Labs rankingsProvenance: Gert Labs reports this composite leaderboard score in the public rankings API. BenchLM scales the source gscore from 0-1 to 0-100 and stores it as a display-only agentic benchmark.
Coding3 benchmarks
Vibe Code BenchBenchmark exact

Vibe Code Bench v1.1

0.00%Display only
Source: Vals AI: Vibe Code Bench v1.1Provenance: Vals Vibe Code Bench v1.1 reports this exact row under google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview; BenchLM stores it on the local vibeCodeBench key.
AA Coding IndexReported

Artificial Analysis Coding Index

34.7%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-SciCodeReported

Artificial Analysis SciCode

41.9%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Reasoning2 benchmarks
AA-LCRReported

Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning

65.3%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
CritPtReported

Critical Physics Tasks

1.1%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Knowledge6 benchmarks
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexReported
25.0%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-GPQA DiamondReported

Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond

82.2%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-HLEReported

Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam

16.2%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-Omniscience IndexReported

Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index

-15.5%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-Omniscience AccuracyReported

Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy

36.4%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateReported

Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate

81.6%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Multimodal2 benchmarks
CharXivProvider exact

CharXiv Reasoning

73.2%Weighted 25%
Source: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model cardProvenance: Provider exact
AA-MMMU-ProReported

Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro

75.5%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Inst. Following1 benchmark
AA-IFBenchReported

Artificial Analysis IFBench

77.2%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite perform overall in AI benchmarks?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has 20 published benchmark scores on BenchLM, but it does not yet have enough non-generated coverage to receive a global overall rank.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite good for knowledge and understanding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has visible benchmark coverage in knowledge and understanding, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite good for coding and programming?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ranks #95 out of 122 models in coding and programming benchmarks with an average score of 44.2. There are stronger options in this category.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite good for reasoning and logic?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has visible benchmark coverage in reasoning and logic, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite good for agentic tool use and computer tasks?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has visible benchmark coverage in agentic tool use and computer tasks, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite good for multimodal and grounded tasks?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has visible benchmark coverage in multimodal and grounded tasks, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite good for instruction following?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has visible benchmark coverage in instruction following, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Does Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite have full benchmark coverage on BenchLM?

Not yet. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite currently has 20 published benchmark scores out of the 321 benchmarks BenchLM tracks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated public benchmark rows, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.

What is the context window size of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has a published context window of 1M, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.

Last updated: July 20, 2026 · Runtime metrics stay blank until BenchLM has a sourced snapshot.

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