Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Llama 4 Maverick
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads Llama 4 Maverick on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 26.3 to 9.3, and Llama 4 Maverick costs 3.0x less per output token ($1.00 vs $3.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 38 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Llama 4 Maverick: which to pick
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a coding score, 43.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama 4 Maverick has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Llama 4 Maverick for output tokens 3.0x cheaper ($1.00 vs $3.00 per million).
- Shared results
- 38
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview only
- 33
- Llama 4 Maverick only
- 47
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 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 Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads, 26.3 against 9.3.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.6.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads, 87.9% against 69.4%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads, 95.6% against 25.2%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads, 88.6% against 79.4%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads, 1196 against 871.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview takes 1.05M tokens against 524K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 4 Maverick
Gemini 3 Flash Preview $0.0020, Llama 4 Maverick $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview $0.37, Llama 4 Maverick $1.491.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview 43.7 from 2 benchmarks, Llama 4 Maverick not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 62.6 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- ARC-AGI: Gemini 3 Flash Preview 84.7% against Llama 4 Maverick 4.4%, 80.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview $3.00 against Llama 4 Maverick $1.00 per million output tokens, 3.0x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview takes 1.05M tokens, Llama 4 Maverick 524K.
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 Flash Preview | Bars | Llama 4 Maverick | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 6 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 7 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 9 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 4 | 0 | ||
| General | 6 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 38 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index60
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 15.6% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 75.8% | 21.0% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 16.3 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 85.6% | 47.3% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 75.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 20.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 6.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 53.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 90.8% | 39.7% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| SciCode | Not measured | 31.7% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 38.6% | 6.8% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Terminal-Bench | 64.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| GSO-Bench | 9.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| WeirdML | 61.6% | 24.5% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| ALE-Bench | 1367.2 | 173.0 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1301 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1299 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SciCode | 12.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 26.3 | 9.3 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 132.2 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 0.6 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1111 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1063 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1090 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1051 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1161 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1036 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 42.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 11.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 18.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 26.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 80.4% | 17.8% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| BALROG | 48.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 49.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,635 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.9% | 69.4% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 87.6% | 71.7% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.8% | 67.1% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 36.6% | 4.9% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ARC-AGI | 84.7% | 4.4% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 33.6% | 0.0% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| SimpleBench | 61.1% | 27.7% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Chess puzzles | 39.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 26.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| VPCT | 72.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1281 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1259 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1295 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1134 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1164 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 55.9% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 95.6% | 25.2% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.2% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 93.3% | 92.4% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| AA Math Index | 97.0 | 19.3 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 97.0% | 19.3% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 51.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 17.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ProofBench | 15.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1299 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1295 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 88.6% | 79.4% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 86.9% | 77.8% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 55.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 66.4% | 49.7% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.9% | 66.6% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.7% | 58.5% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 95.8% | 43.3% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 55.9% | 36.5% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.0% | 80.9% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| SimpleQA Verified | 66.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| GeoBench | 88.0% | 52.0% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1288 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1275 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1286 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1260 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 63.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1196 | 871 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 896 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1166 | 837 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 882 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1183 | 900 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1189 | 879 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.8% | 35.7% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 69.9% | 54.2% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 52.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| IFBench | 78.0% | 43.0% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 78.0% | 50.0% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| DTBench | 89.1% | 61.9% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| LMCA | 43.1% | 15.9% | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 46.2% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 62.0% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1287 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1267 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1266 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1142 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1303 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1269 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1277 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1291 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1206 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1203 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1259 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1293 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1286 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1275 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1289 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1280 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1277 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1250 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1150 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1141 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1143 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1100 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1099 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| 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 Flash Preview | Llama 4 Maverick | 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
Llama 4 Maverick costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Llama 4 Maverick costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Llama 4 Maverick 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 Flash Preview | Meta Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | December 17, 2025 | April 5, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 524K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.35 |
| Output $/Mtok | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| Coding index | 43.7 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.37 | $1.491 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Llama 4 Maverick for coding?
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a coding score, 43.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama 4 Maverick has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Maverick for output tokens 3.0x cheaper ($1.00 vs $3.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Llama 4 Maverick?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.35 and $1.00. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.37 and Llama 4 Maverick $1.491.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Llama 4 Maverick?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Llama 4 Maverick comparison based on?
38 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 3 Flash Preview's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Llama 4 Maverick's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.