Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Granite 4.1 8b

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.1 8b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Granite 4.1 8b IBM

37.4

Rank #205 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 4.1 8b in 3 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 48.1.
  • Granite 4.1 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index37.037.4
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3313

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Granite 4.1 8b: 30.1 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Coding13731312
LMArena WebDev—1192
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Granite 4.1 8b: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Granite 4.1 8b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Granite 4.1 8b: 25.7 (#143)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Hard Prompts13771293
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Granite 4.1 8b: 36.4 (#166)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Math13731312
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Granite 4.1 8b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Granite 4.1 8b: 36.1 (#174)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Expert13731309
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Granite 4.1 8b: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Granite 4.1 8b: 41.7 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Non-English13691261
LMArena Chinese14041337
LMArena Russian13731240
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), Granite 4.1 8b: 66.9 (#203)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Instruction Following13671269
IFEval81%—

Long Context Granite 4.1 8b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#193)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Longer Query13731275
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Granite 4.1 8b: 48.1 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Text13791290
LMArena Creative Writing13671251
LMArena Multi-Turn13661268
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Granite 4.1 8b?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.1 8b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.1 8b better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.1 8b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 8b has 13.

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