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.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

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 and Gemma 7B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.830.0
Released2025-02-052024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3227

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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)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Coding13221048
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
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)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241042
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—111.99
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—82.2%
LiveBench54.3%—
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)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Math13091066
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Expert13051001
MMLU-Pro72%—
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: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1323999
LMArena Chinese13391035
LMArena French13471025
LMArena Russian1328993
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 7B: 51.5 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following13051017
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query13201022

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Text13301056
LMArena Creative Writing13191024
LMArena Multi-Turn1307963
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

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.

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