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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Granite 4.2 30b

Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 30b IBM

41.4

Rank #126 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.2 30b in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 41.4 to 33.3.
  • Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index36.441.4
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3311

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Granite 4.2 30b: 40.4 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Coding13731394
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Granite 4.2 30b: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Granite 4.2 30b: 26.7 (#114)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Hard Prompts13771375
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Granite 4.2 30b: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Granite 4.2 30b: 38.5 (#134)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Expert13731405
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Granite 4.2 30b: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Granite 4.2 30b: 47.4 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Non-English13691340
LMArena Chinese14041415
LMArena Russian13731342
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1358—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Granite 4.2 30b: 71.3 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Instruction Following13661346
IFEval81%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#135)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Longer Query13731359
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Granite 4.2 30b: 54.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 30b
LMArena Text13791363
LMArena Creative Writing13661294
LMArena Multi-Turn13671340
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Granite 4.2 30b?

Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?

Granite 4.2 30b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.2 30b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.

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