Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 37.9 to 22.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Data Analysis: 65.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 51.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.830.8
Released2025-02-052025-03-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.08
Output $ / M tokens—$0.16
Results tracked3243

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LiveBench Coding47.1%39.9%
LMArena Coding13221322
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
SciCode—21.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%43.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13241340
DTBench52.5%52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%51.5%
LiveBench54.3%50%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA—12.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.04
ForecastBench57.1—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LiveBench Math58.1%55.4%
LMArena Math13091312
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—22.5%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
MATH Level 5—74%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LMArena Expert13051304
GPQA Diamond—47.7%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—40.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision11001164
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English13231334
LMArena Chinese13391346
LMArena French13471368
LMArena German13061362
LMArena Japanese13011287
LMArena Korean13251308
LMArena Russian13281349
LMArena Spanish13131349

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%74.9%
LMArena Instruction Following13051321
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LMArena Longer Query13201333
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 27B
LMArena Text13301358
LMArena Creative Writing13191346
LMArena Multi-Turn13071345
LiveBench Language34.3%34.6%
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
WildBench79%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemma 3 27B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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