Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 2 9B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 58.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 19.8% for Gemma 2 9B.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.825.9
Released2025-02-052024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked3235

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LiveBench Coding47.1%22.5%
LMArena Coding13221173
BigCodeBench Instruct—34.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%15.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13241171
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%36.4%
LiveBench54.3%28.7%
DTBench52.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.83
ForecastBench57.1—
PIQA—83.7%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LiveBench Math58.1%19.8%
LMArena Math13091183
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.6%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
MATH Level 5—21%
GSM8K—84.9%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LMArena Expert13051147
GPQA Diamond—27.5%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
BoolQ—85.7%
MMLU—72.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Gemma 2 9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LMArena Non-English13231188
LMArena Chinese13391185
LMArena French13471190
LMArena German13061186
LMArena Japanese13011144
LMArena Korean13251137
LMArena Russian13281200
LMArena Spanish13131200

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%52.6%
LMArena Instruction Following13051178
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LMArena Longer Query13201197

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2 9B
LMArena Text13301207
LMArena Creative Writing13191206
LMArena Multi-Turn13071193
LiveBench Language34.3%25.5%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—841
WildBench79%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 2 9B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemma 2 9B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.

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