Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 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 8B IBM

40.0

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 57.0 to 49.8.
  • Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.25 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 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index36.440.0
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.06
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.25
Results tracked3311

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Granite 4.2 8B: 39.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Coding13731379
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Granite 4.2 8B: 25.5 (#130)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771327
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 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Granite 4.2 8B: 37.7 (#144)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Expert13731380
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 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#173)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Non-English13691299
LMArena Chinese14041361
LMArena Russian13731283
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1358—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#183)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Instruction Following13661298
IFEval81%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.2 (#154)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Longer Query13731323
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Granite 4.2 8B: 49.8 (#183)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Text13791319
LMArena Creative Writing13661238
LMArena Multi-Turn13671299
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

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 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.

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