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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA

40.0

Rank #155 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 48.5.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 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 262K.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index37.040.0
Released2025-06-172026-08-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.20
Results tracked3318

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Coding13731375
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts13771337
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Math13731359
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Expert13731356
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Non-English13691295
LMArena Chinese14041359
LMArena French13881366
LMArena German13891282
LMArena Japanese13591206
LMArena Korean13601238
LMArena Russian13731253
LMArena Spanish13961345

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following13671318
IFEval81%—

Long Context Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Longer Query13731314
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteNemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Text13791327
LMArena Creative Writing13671254
LMArena Multi-Turn13661328
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1280
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.

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