Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 3 4B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemma 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3 4B 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 11.8.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.828.1
Released2025-02-052025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked3222

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding13221230
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241253
DTBench52.5%50.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—2.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—116.02
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Math13091239
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.5%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Expert13051223
GPQA Diamond—23.2%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Gemma 3 4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English13231273
LMArena German13061281
LMArena Russian13281294
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1347—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following13051239
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query13201273

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text13301291
LMArena Creative Writing13191271
LMArena Multi-Turn13071255
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 3 4B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemma 3 4B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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