Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 2B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 24.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.029.6
Released2025-06-172024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3323

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Coding13731010
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—
HumanEval+—20.7%
MBPP+—34.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Gemma 2B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Hard Prompts1377989
Epoch Capabilities Index133.9494.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—35.2%
HellaSwag—71.4%
PIQA—77.3%
WinoGrande—65.4%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Math13731009
Omni-MATH48%—
GSM8K—17.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Gemma 2B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.1%
BoolQ—69.4%
MMLU—42.3%
TriviaQA—53.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Gemma 2B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Non-English1369958
LMArena Chinese1404986
LMArena Russian1373937
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Instruction Following1367970
IFEval81%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Longer Query1373981
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2B
LMArena Text13791002
LMArena Creative Writing1367987
LMArena Multi-Turn1366945
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 2B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Gemma 2B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.

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