Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

28.8

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 35.5 to 11.2.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 48% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 20.9% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.40 for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.0 Micro specifications
	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
Provider	Google	IBM
Noometry Index	36.4	28.8
Released	2025-06-17	2025-10-02
Weights	Proprietary	Open
Context window	1.05M	131K
Max output	66K	118K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.10	$0.017
Output $ / M tokens	$0.40	$0.11
Results tracked	33	8

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
WeirdML	35.2%	—
LMArena Coding	1373	—
ALE-Bench	325.9	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	36.9%	—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.5%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1377	—
DTBench	62.8%	—
LMCA	18.1%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	133.93	—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
Omni-MATH	48%	20.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	2.8%
LMArena Math	1373	—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
MMLU-Pro	53.7%	39.5%
GPQA (HELM)	30.9%	30.7%
GPQA Diamond	—	28.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	3.3%	—
LMArena Expert	1373	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision	1198	—
VPCT	30%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English	1369	—
LMArena Chinese	1404	—
LMArena French	1388	—
LMArena German	1390	—
LMArena Japanese	1359	—
LMArena Korean	1358	—
LMArena Russian	1373	—
LMArena Spanish	1396	—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
IFEval	81%	84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following	1366	—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
Fiction.LiveBench	47.2%	—
LMArena Longer Query	1373	—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Granite 4.0 Micro
WildBench	81.8%	67%
LMArena Text	1379	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1366	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1367	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.