Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Nova 2 Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash and Nova 2 Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.3 vs 39.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 5 categories and Nova 2 Lite in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova 2 Lite leads 27.5 to 18.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 56.2% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 27.1% for Nova 2 Lite.
- Both cost about the same: $0.30 input and $2.50 output per million tokens.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 39.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-17 | 2025-12-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1M |
| Max output | 66K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Nova 2 Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1424 | 1385 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 28.7% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 41.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 661.88 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 56.2% | 27.1% |
| Terminal-Bench | 17.1% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 41.1% | — |
| BALROG | 33.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 548.84 | — |
Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1422 | 1364 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 2.5% | — |
| SimpleBench | 41.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 56.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 33.3% | — |
| CritPt | 1.1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 2.7% | — |
| DTBench | 76.5% | — |
| LMCA | 27.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 143.03 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |
Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1415 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 38.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.8% | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1426 | 1358 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 16.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Nova 2 Lite: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1253 | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
| VPCT | 46.2% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 36.9% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1409 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | 1364 |
| LMArena French | 1433 | 1381 |
| LMArena German | 1418 | 1343 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1405 | 1271 |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | 1284 |
| LMArena Russian | 1415 | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | 1373 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1405 | 1335 |
| IFEval | 89.8% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1419 | 1335 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | 1362 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1400 | 1291 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1408 | 1338 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1137 | — |
| WildBench | 81.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Nova 2 Lite?
Gemini 2.5 Flash and Nova 2 Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.3 vs 39.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash lists at $0.30 and $2.50.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?
Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Nova 2 Lite share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.