Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 22.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 50% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 80.3% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.854.8
Released2025-02-052025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked3267

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Coding13221481
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
LMArena WebDev—1440
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
WeirdML—69.9%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Hard Prompts13241480
ForecastBench57.161.2
ARC-AGI-2—31.1%
SimpleBench—76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
Chess Puzzles—31%
EnigmaEval—18.2%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—152.92
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
Omni-MATH37.4%55.5%
LMArena Math13091476
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—20%
LiveBench Math58.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
MMLU-Pro72%90.3%
GPQA (HELM)50%80.3%
LMArena Expert13051475
GPQA Diamond—92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision11001305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English13231474
LMArena Chinese13391523
LMArena French13471492
LMArena German13061515
LMArena Japanese13011510
LMArena Korean13251448
LMArena Russian13281493
LMArena Spanish13131470

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
IFEval82.4%87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following13051458
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Longer Query13201471
CL-bench—15.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text13301479
LMArena Creative Writing13191482
WildBench79%85.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13071484
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3 Pro share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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