Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 7B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 52.3 to 25.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemma 7B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index39.330.0
Released2025-04-172024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked5427

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Coding14241048
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
ALE-Bench661.88—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221042
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03111.99
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
DTBench76.5%—
LMCA27.5%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
ForecastBench60.6—
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Math14151066
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
Omni-MATH38.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Expert14261001
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Gemma 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1409999
LMArena Chinese14501035
LMArena French14331025
LMArena Russian1415993
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14051017
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query14191022
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Text14171056
LMArena Creative Writing14001024
LMArena Multi-Turn1408963
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Gemma 7B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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