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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Nemotron 3 Ultra

Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA

44.7

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3 Ultra in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nemotron 3 Ultra leads 52.5 to 34.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 90.1% for Nemotron 3 Ultra.
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index37.344.7
Released2025-02-052026-06-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked3229

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 37.7 (#174)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Coding13221468
FrontierCode—13.6%
SciCode—40.3%
WeirdML—43.5%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 30.3 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Hard Prompts13241452
DTBench52.5%90.1%
CritPt—3.1%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—36.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.2
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 34.4 (#160)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Math13091456
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
ProofBench—2%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 52.5 (#56)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Expert13051472
GPQA Diamond—85.4%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103), Nemotron 3 Ultra: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 53.7 (#61)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Non-English13231427
LMArena Chinese13391498
LMArena French13461475
LMArena German13061471
LMArena Korean13251387
LMArena Russian13281415
LMArena Spanish13131452
LMArena Japanese1302—

Instruction Following Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 74.9 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Instruction Following13051417
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 43.9 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Longer Query13211437

Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 66.3 (#35)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteNemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Text13301444
LMArena Creative Writing13191392
LMArena Multi-Turn13071412
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1692
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Nemotron 3 Ultra?

Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Nemotron 3 Ultra better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.4 vs 37.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Nemotron 3 Ultra share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3 Ultra has 29.

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