Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite on coding, 66.7 to 49.0 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs 2.4x less per output token ($2.50 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 69 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Grok 4.7: which to pick
Pick Grok 4.7 for coding: it scores 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 49.0 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for output tokens 2.4x cheaper ($2.50 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 500K tokens).
- Shared results
- 69
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite only
- 16
- Grok 4.7 only
- 30
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 scores 66.7 against 49.0.
3 and 5 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 leads, 46.4 against 22.2.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a AA Agentic Index result, 14.3.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a GPQA Diamond result, 83.8%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a MMLU Pro result, 85.8%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1254.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a Vals Index result, 58.6%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens against 500K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite $0.0015, Grok 4.7 $0.0050 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has the number, $0.41.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 49.0 from 3 benchmarks, Grok 4.7 66.7 from 5 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 22.8 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- ARC-AGI-2: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 10.3% against Grok 4.7 61.4%, 51.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite $2.50 against Grok 4.7 $6.00 per million output tokens, 2.4x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens, Grok 4.7 500K.
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 3.5 Flash Lite | Bars | Grok 4.7 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 9 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 5 | ||
| Reasoning | 3 | 8 | ||
| Math | 1 | 5 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 2 | ||
| General | 23 | 5 | ||
| All shared boards | 33 | 36 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index29
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 84.5% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1435 | 1637 | Grok 4.7 |
| AA Coding Index | 49.3 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 79.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 75.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 28.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 37.2% | 86.2% | Grok 4.7 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 6.2% | 44.8% | Grok 4.7 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | 0.5% | Grok 4.7 |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.7% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 50.2% | 73.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 42.9% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 59.1% | 69.5% | Grok 4.7 |
| SciCode | 41.3% | 57.8% | Grok 4.7 |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 47.6% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 29.5% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| WeirdML | 39.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| ALE-Bench | 765.3 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1453 | 1432 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1451 | 1421 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1408 | 1663 | Grok 4.7 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1627 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1448 | 1586 | Grok 4.7 |
| SciCode | 6.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.2 | 46.4 | Grok 4.7 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.9 | 154.4 | Grok 4.7 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 14.3 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 86.4% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 60.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 50.1% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 3.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 47.4% | 52.3% | Grok 4.7 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 7.2% | 34.2% | Grok 4.7 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 13.9% | 47.1% | Grok 4.7 |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 18.3% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 43.2% | 67.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.3% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 10.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.2% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 29.3% | 54.6% | Grok 4.7 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $10,537 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index38
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 82.7% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.2% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 83.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 18.8% | 43.1% | Grok 4.7 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 83.3% | 92.7% | Grok 4.7 |
| ARC-AGI | 53.5% | 90.2% | Grok 4.7 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 10.3% | 61.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| Chess puzzles | 21.0% | 41.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 19.0% | 29.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1441 | 1415 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1434 | 1439 | Grok 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1440 | 1427 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1284 | 1254 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1291 | 1309 | Grok 4.7 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 71.1% | 98.1% | Grok 4.7 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 26.0% | 53.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 0.0% | 17.1% | Grok 4.7 |
| ProofBench | 13.0% | 26.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1434 | 1414 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1433 | 1435 | Grok 4.7 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index42
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 85.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 84.1% | 84.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 72.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 43.5% | 49.5% | Grok 4.7 |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 56.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1451 | 1419 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1438 | 1395 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1431 | 1423 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1423 | 1389 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1254 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1275 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1313 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1235 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1270 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1271 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 78.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index235
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 58.6% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 76.9% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 51.8% | 65.6% | Grok 4.7 |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 47.3% | 40.8% | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 70.9% | 89.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 76.0% | 80.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| DTBench | 83.5% | 96.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| LMCA | 37.6% | 49.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 20.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1435 | 1399 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1419 | 1406 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1421 | 1381 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Vision | 1269 | 1231 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: English | 1438 | 1411 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1427 | 1386 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1468 | 1449 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: German | 1454 | 1366 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1426 | 1359 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1407 | 1383 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: French | 1451 | 1431 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1441 | 1406 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1443 | 1399 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1437 | 1420 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1445 | 1394 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1435 | 1416 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1428 | 1394 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1414 | 1376 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1269 | 1229 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1311 | 1250 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1280 | 1241 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1287 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1260 | 1217 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | 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
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 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 3.5 Flash Lite | SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | xAI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 21, 2026 | September 21, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 500K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.30 | $2.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.50 | $6.00 |
| Coding index | 49.0 | 66.7 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 5 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.41 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Grok 4.7 for coding?
Pick Grok 4.7 for coding: it scores 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 49.0 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for output tokens 2.4x cheaper ($2.50 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 500K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Grok 4.7?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Grok 4.7 costs $2.00 and $6.00. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Grok 4.7?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, with 1.05M tokens against 500K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Grok 4.7 comparison based on?
69 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Grok 4.7's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.