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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI

33.7

Rank #239 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) 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 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 65.2% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024).

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index37.833.7
Released2025-02-052024-08-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked3234

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LiveBench Coding47.1%46.4%
LMArena Coding13221287
WeirdML—22.2%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%54.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13241272
DTBench52.5%65.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%54.5%
LiveBench54.3%54.3%
SimpleBench—22.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.48
ForecastBench57.1—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LiveBench Math58.1%54.9%
LMArena Math13091283
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—11.5%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
MATH Level 5—63.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Expert13051254
GPQA Diamond—53.8%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—20.1%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Non-English13231282
LMArena Chinese13391289
LMArena French13471318
LMArena German13061287
LMArena Japanese13011244
LMArena Korean13251237
LMArena Russian13281286
LMArena Spanish13131281

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%69.6%
LMArena Instruction Following13051270
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Longer Query13201276

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Text13301305
LMArena Creative Writing13191284
LMArena Multi-Turn13071290
LiveBench Language34.3%45.6%
Short-Story Creative Writing—63.6%
WildBench79%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.

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