Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 22.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 96% for GPT-5.5.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.5 specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.863.4
Released2025-02-052026-04-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked3271

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Coding13221494
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1513
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
MirrorCode—10%
ALE-Bench—1,943

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Hard Prompts13241489
DTBench52.5%96%
ForecastBench57.160.6
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles—54%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—159.1
LiveBench54.3%—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Expert13051508
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—63%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision11001297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English13231467
LMArena Chinese13391533
LMArena French13471486
LMArena German13061480
LMArena Japanese13011498
LMArena Korean13251460
LMArena Russian13281473
LMArena Spanish13131468

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following13051479
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Longer Query13201484
CL-bench Life—22.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5.5
LMArena Text13301472
LMArena Creative Writing13191455
LMArena Multi-Turn13071476
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
WildBench79%—
EQ-Bench 4—1315
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.5 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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