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R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

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Winner summary

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Hype vs Reality
R1 Distill Llama 70B
#264 by perf·#14 by attention
QUIET
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
#162 by perf·#5 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
1.5x better value than R1 Distill Llama 70B
R1 Distill Llama 70B
34.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
50.9 pts/$
$0.88/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
R1 Distill Llama 70BGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads by +23.3
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
R1 Distill Llama 70B
11.4
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
34.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads by +9.1
R1 Distill Llama 70B
15.9
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
25.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkR1 Distill Llama 70BGemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
11.434.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
15.925.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Llama 70B$0.80$0.808K tokens (~4 books)$8.00
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.1 Flash Lite$0.25$1.501.0M tokens (~524 books)$5.63