Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 7B
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 51.7 to 27.1.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1048 |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | 1042 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 111.99 |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1309 | 1066 |
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | 1001 |
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | 1035 |
| LMArena French | 1347 | 1025 |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | 993 |
| LMArena German | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1017 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | — |
| IFEval | 82.4% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1022 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | 963 |
| WildBench | 79% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 7B?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemma 7B better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemma 7B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.