Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA

40.0

Rank #155 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 26.8 to 22.0.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index37.840.0
Released2025-02-052026-08-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked3218

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Coding13221375
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts13241337
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Math13091359
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Expert13051356
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Non-English13231295
LMArena Chinese13391359
LMArena French13471366
LMArena German13061282
LMArena Japanese13011206
LMArena Korean13251238
LMArena Russian13281253
LMArena Spanish13131345

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following13051318
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Longer Query13201314

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Text13301327
LMArena Creative Writing13191254
LMArena Multi-Turn13071328
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1280
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.

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