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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Palm 2

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Palm 2 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 25.6.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.030.0
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3310

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Coding1373994
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Palm 2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts13771005
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), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Math13731049
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Palm 2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Palm 2: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Non-English1369916
LMArena Chinese1404887
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following13671010
IFEval81%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Longer Query13731010
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePalm 2
LMArena Text13791027
LMArena Creative Writing1367991
LMArena Multi-Turn1366994
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Palm 2?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Palm 2 better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Palm 2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.

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