Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GPT-4

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.1 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 62.7% for GPT-4.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.829.1
Released2025-02-052023-03-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$30
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked3238

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Coding13221254
WeirdML—12.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—57.2%
HumanEval+—79.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, GPT-4: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
METR Time Horizons—36.1%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Hard Prompts13241241
DTBench52.5%62.7%
ForecastBench57.157.8
Chess Puzzles—4%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—17.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—75.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.89
HellaSwag—95.3%
LiveBench54.3%—
WinoGrande—87.5%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Math13091269
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.1%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—23%
GSM8K—92%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Expert13051211
GPQA Diamond—35.7%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
MMLU—86.4%
TriviaQA—84.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), GPT-4: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Non-English13231246
LMArena Chinese13391242
LMArena French13471283
LMArena German13061251
LMArena Japanese13011209
LMArena Korean13251184
LMArena Russian13281251
LMArena Spanish13131261

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Instruction Following13051241
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Longer Query13201244

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-4
LMArena Text13301263
LMArena Creative Writing13191244
LMArena Multi-Turn13071257
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—752
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GPT-4?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GPT-4 better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-4 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.

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