Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Olmo 3 32b Think

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Olmo 3 32b Think Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

38.7

Rank #183 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 3 32b Think in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 49.3 to 41.2.
  • Olmo 3 32b Think has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index37.038.7
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3314

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.6 (#172)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Coding13731319
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Olmo 3 32b Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Olmo 3 32b Think: 25.9 (#140)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Hard Prompts13771302
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Olmo 3 32b Think: 36.5 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Math13731316
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Olmo 3 32b Think: 35.0 (#190)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Expert13731273
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Olmo 3 32b Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.2 (#210)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Non-English13691255
LMArena Chinese14041300
LMArena French13881291
LMArena German13891290
LMArena Russian13731254
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.2 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Instruction Following13671275
IFEval81%—

Long Context Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#182)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Longer Query13731296
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.1 (#193)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOlmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Text13791300
LMArena Creative Writing13671256
LMArena Multi-Turn13661290
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Olmo 3 32b Think?

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Olmo 3 32b Think better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.5 vs 38.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Olmo 3 32b Think share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3 32b Think has 14.

Related comparisons

Go deeper