Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 Mini in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Mini leads 46.7 to 34.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 37.4% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 72.2% for GPT-5 Mini.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5 Mini specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.841.8
Released2025-02-052025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked3260

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Coding13221406
SWE-bench Verified—64.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—59.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—39.7%
SciCode—39.2%
WeirdML—52.7%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—799.77
AlgoTune—1.38

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
Terminal-Bench—34.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.5%
Vending-Bench 2—-31.18

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Hard Prompts13241380
DTBench52.5%80.5%
ForecastBench57.161
ARC-AGI-2—4.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
ARC-AGI-1—54.3%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—30%
EnigmaEval—8.2%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—34.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.52
LiveBench54.3%—

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
Omni-MATH37.4%72.2%
LMArena Math13091378
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
ProofBench—9%
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—27.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
MMLU-Pro72%83.5%
GPQA (HELM)50%75.6%
LMArena Expert13051379
GPQA Diamond—75%
Humanity's Last Exam—19.4%
SimpleQA Verified—21.6%
Confabulations—13.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%

Multimodal GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision11001202
VPCT—40.2%

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Non-English13231363
LMArena Chinese13391385
LMArena French13471386
LMArena German13061366
LMArena Japanese13011341
LMArena Korean13251308
LMArena Russian13281362
LMArena Spanish13131355

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
IFEval82.4%92.7%
LMArena Instruction Following13051357
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Longer Query13201355
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text13301373
LMArena Creative Writing13191325
WildBench79%85.5%
LMArena Multi-Turn13071363
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1313
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GPT-5 Mini better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5 Mini share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.

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