Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GPT-4o mini
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 9 categories and GPT-4o mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.1 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 58.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 36.3% for GPT-4o mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 25.5 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2024-07-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | 43.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1290 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 11.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 83.5% |
| MBPP+ | — | 72.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 17.4% |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | 32.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | 1267 |
| DTBench | 52.5% | 54.4% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | 50% |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | 41.3% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 10.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMCA | — | 10.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 126.56 |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| PIQA | — | 88.7% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | 28% |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | 36.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1309 | 1267 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 52.6% |
| GSM8K | — | 91.3% |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | 60.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | 36.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | 1235 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 37.7% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 8.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 37.2% |
| BoolQ | — | 88.7% |
| MMLU | — | 81.8% |
Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | 1066 |
| Video-MME | — | 64.8% |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 34% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | 1266 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | 1265 |
| LMArena French | 1347 | 1297 |
| LMArena German | 1306 | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | 1216 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 1195 |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | 1275 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | 1276 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | 56.8% |
| IFEval | 82.4% | 78.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1258 |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1289 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | 1286 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1268 |
| WildBench | 79% | 79.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | 1285 |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | 28.6% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 67.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 873 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GPT-4o mini?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GPT-4o mini better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-4o mini share?
31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o mini has 60.