Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Granite 4.0 H Small

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.0 H Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.4 vs 35.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

35.9

Rank #213 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 4.0 H Small in 2 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 44.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 48% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 29.6% for Granite 4.0 H Small.
  • Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index36.435.9
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3319

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Coding13731247
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Hard Prompts13771240
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
Omni-MATH48%29.6%
LMArena Math13731251

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
MMLU-Pro53.7%56.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%5.2%
GPQA (HELM)30.9%38.3%
LMArena Expert13731244

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Non-English13691216
LMArena Chinese14041250
LMArena Russian13731198
LMArena Spanish13961258
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1358—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
IFEval81%89%
LMArena Instruction Following13661221

Long Context Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Longer Query13731240
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Text13791241
LMArena Creative Writing13661210
WildBench81.8%73.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13671243

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.0 H Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.4 vs 35.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.0 H Small better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.

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