Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 4 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.5 to 28.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 55.6% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 30.9% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 37.0 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-06-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 25.8% | 35.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1373 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 325.9 |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 36.9% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | 40.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1377 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 62.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 133.94 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LMCA | — | 18.1% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | 48% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1373 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | 53.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | 30.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1373 |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.3% |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | 1198 |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
| VPCT | — | 30% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1369 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1404 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1388 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1389 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 1359 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1360 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1373 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1396 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.1% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | 47.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1373 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1379 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1367 |
| WildBench | 80% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1366 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?
28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.