Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) DeepSeek

37.6

Rank #200 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 37.9 to 31.7.
  • DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite specifications
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index37.637.8
Released2024-09-062025-02-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2232

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.7 (#281), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Coding13091322
Aider Polyglot17.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.6%—
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
BigCodeBench Complete53.2%—
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+74.1%—

Reasoning DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 25.6 (#145), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts12891324
LiveBench Reasoning—50.1%
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—54.3%

Math DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 35.9 (#177), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Math12881309
Omni-MATH—37.4%
LiveBench Math—58.1%

Knowledge Too close to call

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.8 (#193), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Expert12661305
MMLU-Pro—72%
GPQA (HELM)—50%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Vision—1100

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.5 (#193), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Non-English12731323
LMArena Chinese13181339
LMArena French12891347
LMArena German12581306
LMArena Japanese12281301
LMArena Korean12091325
LMArena Russian12891328
LMArena Spanish12481313

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.5 (#194), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Instruction Following12801305
LiveBench Instruction Following—78.3%
IFEval—82.4%

Long Context Too close to call

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#174), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Longer Query13011320

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 49.8 (#187), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Text12941330
LMArena Creative Writing12851319
LMArena Multi-Turn12971307
WildBench—79%
LiveBench Language—34.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32.

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