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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemini 2.0 Pro

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

39.1

Rank #173 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Pro in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 40.1 to 29.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 47.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 63.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.839.1
Released2025-02-052025-02-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Max output——
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Results tracked3214

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
LiveBench Coding47.1%63.5%
Aider Polyglot—35.6%
LMArena Coding1322—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%60.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%68%
LiveBench54.3%65.1%
EnigmaEval—0.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
DTBench52.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.06
ForecastBench57.1—

Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
LiveBench Math58.1%71%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LMArena Math1309—
MATH Level 5—83.5%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
GPQA Diamond—65.7%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—18.4%
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%83.4%
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench—41.7%
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 2.0 Pro
LiveBench Language34.3%44.9%
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Gemini 2.0 Pro?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemini 2.0 Pro better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.9 vs 37.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.0 Pro share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14.

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