Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 72% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 39.5% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index37.829.0
Released2025-02-052025-10-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.017
Output $ / M tokens—$0.11
Results tracked328

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
Omni-MATH37.4%20.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.8%
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
MMLU-Pro72%39.5%
GPQA (HELM)50%30.7%
GPQA Diamond—28.3%
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval82.4%84.9%
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 Micro
WildBench79%67%
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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