Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Gemma 4 31B
Gemma 4 31B costs 3.8x less per output token than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite ($0.40 vs $1.50 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 14 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Gemma 4 31B: which to pick
Only Gemma 4 31B has a coding score, 39.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite for a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens) and work measured by Epoch Capabilities Index or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 14
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite only
- 2
- Gemma 4 31B only
- 57
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemma 4 31B has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Gemma 4 31B has a AA Intelligence Index result, 14.7.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Gemma 4 31B has a AA Agentic Index result, 4.2.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemma 4 31B
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite $0.0010, Gemma 4 31B $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite not benchmarked, Gemma 4 31B 39.0 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 34.2 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- τ²-Bench Telecom: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite 31.3% against Gemma 4 31B 65.5%, 34.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite $1.50 against Gemma 4 31B $0.40 per million output tokens, 3.8x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens, Gemma 4 31B 262K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Bars | Gemma 4 31B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 2 | ||
| Math | 1 | 0 | ||
| General | 2 | 2 | ||
| All shared boards | 6 | 8 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index03
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 49.0% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1367 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 43.4 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| SciCode | 43.4% | 45.5% | Gemma 4 31B |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 24.2% | 36.4% | Gemma 4 31B |
| WeirdML | 52.2% | 52.3% | Gemma 4 31B |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 925.5 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1459 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1463 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1359 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1380 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 8.9% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 14.7 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.3 | 143.0 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 4.2 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 44.4% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 4.0% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 13.3% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 31.3% | 65.5% | Gemma 4 31B |
| DeepResearch Bench | 37.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 68.3% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.2% | 85.7% | Gemma 4 31B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 17.2% | 23.6% | Gemma 4 31B |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 81.8% | 75.8% | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1448 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1464 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1456 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1283 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1310 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 67.2% | 63.5% | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 80.0% | 73.3% | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 27.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1463 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1465 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 52.6% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.4% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 10.4% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1457 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1451 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1438 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1430 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | Not measured | 45.3% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 58.4% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 53.3% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 55.0% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| IFBench | 77.2% | 75.6% | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 74.3% | 69.7% | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
| DTBench | 76.8% | 82.7% | Gemma 4 31B |
| LMCA | 35.0% | 39.3% | Gemma 4 31B |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 30.6% | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1443 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1433 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1417 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1276 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1451 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1430 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1475 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1436 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1442 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1460 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1433 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1452 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1446 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1432 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1405 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1271 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1326 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1282 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1280 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1218 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1226 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1285 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| LMArena Document | Not measured | 1425 | Only Gemma 4 31B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Gemma 4 31B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemma 4 31B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemma 4 31B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemma 4 31B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Google Gemma 4 31B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | ||
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | May 7, 2026 | April 2, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.25 | $0.14 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.50 | $0.40 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 39.0 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Gemma 4 31B for coding?
Only Gemma 4 31B has a coding score, 39.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite for a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens) and work measured by Epoch Capabilities Index or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Gemma 4 31B?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Gemma 4 31B costs $0.14 and $0.40. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Gemma 4 31B?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Gemma 4 31B comparison based on?
14 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Gemma 4 31B's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.