Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 7B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.030.0
Released2025-06-172024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3327

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Coding13731048
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771042
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94111.99
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Math13731066
Omni-MATH48%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Expert13731001
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1369999
LMArena Chinese14041035
LMArena French13881025
LMArena Russian1373993
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 7B: 51.5 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following13671017
IFEval81%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query13731022
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 7B
LMArena Text13791056
LMArena Creative Writing13671024
LMArena Multi-Turn1366963
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 7B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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