Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Nova Premier 1.0
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 70.4 to 66.8.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
Math Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | 35% |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1309 | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | 51.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | — |
| LMArena French | 1347 | — |
| LMArena German | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 82.4% | 80.3% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | — |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 79% | 78.8% |
| LMArena Text | 1330 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.