Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs o1-mini

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 6 categories and o1-mini in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 22.0 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 50.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 72.3% for o1-mini.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.834.0
Released2025-02-052024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked3239

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LiveBench Coding47.1%48%
LMArena Coding13221362
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
WeirdML—36.3%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
Cybench—10%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%72.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13241333
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%57.9%
LiveBench54.3%57.8%
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—18.1%
ARC-AGI-1—14%
DTBench52.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.82
ForecastBench57.1—

Math o1-mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LiveBench Math58.1%62%
LMArena Math13091358
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—46.9%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
MATH Level 5—89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LMArena Expert13051316
GPQA Diamond—62.4%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), o1-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LMArena Non-English13231289
LMArena Chinese13391314
LMArena French13471293
LMArena German13061278
LMArena Japanese13011245
LMArena Korean13251223
LMArena Russian13281283
LMArena Spanish13131303

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%65.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13051304
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query13201320

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1-mini
LMArena Text13301317
LMArena Creative Writing13191244
LMArena Multi-Turn13071314
LiveBench Language34.3%40.9%
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
WildBench79%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than o1-mini?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or o1-mini better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and o1-mini share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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