Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Nova Premier 1.0

Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 6 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

38.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Summary

They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 51.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 30.9% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 51.8% for Nova Premier 1.0.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Nova Premier 1.0 specifications
	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
Provider	Google	Amazon
Noometry Index	37.0	38.3
Released	2025-06-17	2025-04-30
Weights	Proprietary	Proprietary
Context window	1.05M	1M
Max output	66K	10K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.10	$2.50
Output $ / M tokens	$0.40	$12.50
Results tracked	33	6

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
WeirdML	35.2%	—
LMArena Coding	1373	—
ALE-Bench	325.9	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	36.9%	—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.5%	44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1377	—
DTBench	62.8%	—
LMCA	18.1%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	133.94	—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
Omni-MATH	48%	35%
LMArena Math	1373	—

Knowledge Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
MMLU-Pro	53.7%	72.6%
GPQA (HELM)	30.9%	51.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	3.3%	—
LMArena Expert	1373	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Vision	1198	—
VPCT	30%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English	1369	—
LMArena Chinese	1404	—
LMArena French	1388	—
LMArena German	1389	—
LMArena Japanese	1359	—
LMArena Korean	1360	—
LMArena Russian	1373	—
LMArena Spanish	1396	—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
IFEval	81%	80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following	1367	—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
Fiction.LiveBench	47.2%	—
LMArena Longer Query	1373	—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Nova Premier 1.0
WildBench	81.8%	78.8%
LMArena Text	1379	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1367	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1366	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Nova Premier 1.0?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.