Which model is better: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 62.5% cheaper for input tokens ($0.07 vs. $0.20 per 1M tokens) and $0.30 vs. $0.60 for output tokens (2.7x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite delivers lower response latency at 78ms TTFT (57ms faster than Llama 4 Maverick) with 265 vs. 175 tok/s throughput. Llama 4 Maverick leads coding evaluations at 62.4% SWE-bench Verified vs. 55.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 73.8% vs. 68.4% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Llama 4 Maverick
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$0.07
$0.20
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 2.7x cheaper
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$0.30
$0.60
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (50.0% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$0.015
$0.050
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 3.3x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$0.07
$0.20
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 2.7x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
1,049k (33k out)
1,049k (33k out)
Equal Context Window
Avg TTFT Response Latency
78ms
135ms
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (57ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
265 tok/s
175 tok/s
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+90 tok/s faster)
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
55.4%
62.4%
Llama 4 Maverick (+7.0% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
68.4%
73.8%
Llama 4 Maverick (+5.4% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
80.1%
84.5%
Llama 4 Maverick (+4.4% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
90.2%
91%
Llama 4 Maverick (+0.8% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
81.5 / 100
77 / 100
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+4.5 pts)
Interactive Monthly Token Economics & ROI Forecaster
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Which is cheaper: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.075/1M input tokens ($0.30/1M output) compared to $0.20/1M input ($0.60/1M output) for Llama 4 Maverick.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite delivers faster first-token latency at 78ms TTFT (265 tok/s throughput) compared to 135ms TTFT (175 tok/s) for Llama 4 Maverick.
How do Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Llama 4 Maverick compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite scores 55.4% versus 62.4% for Llama 4 Maverick. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite scores 68.4% versus 73.8% for Llama 4 Maverick (and 90.2% vs 91% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?
Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google) for high-frequency data pipelines, real-time routing, large-scale document tagging, and ultra-low-cost conversational assistants — offering a 1,048k context window, 78ms TTFT, and $0.07/1M input pricing ($0.015/1M cached reads).
When should you choose Llama 4 Maverick?
Choose Llama 4 Maverick (Meta) for high-throughput open-weight multimodal assistants, enterprise RAG, and low-cost cloud inference on Groq and Cerebras — offering a 1,048k context window, 135ms TTFT, and $0.20/1M input pricing ($0.050/1M cached reads).
