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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 2B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 51.7 to 24.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.829.6
Released2025-02-052024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked3223

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Coding13221010
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
HumanEval+—20.7%
MBPP+—34.1%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Hard Prompts1324989
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—35.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—94.2
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—71.4%
LiveBench54.3%—
PIQA—77.3%
WinoGrande—65.4%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Math13091009
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
GSM8K—17.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemma 2B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.1%
BoolQ—69.4%
MMLU—42.3%
TriviaQA—53.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Non-English1323958
LMArena Chinese1339986
LMArena Russian1328937
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Instruction Following1305970
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Longer Query1320981

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Text13301002
LMArena Creative Writing1319987
LMArena Multi-Turn1307945
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemma 2B 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 2B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.

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