# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Gemma 2B

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 2B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Google |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 246 | 307 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1010 |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | 34.1% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 94.2 |
| PIQA | 87.5% | 77.3% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1009 |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | 17.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 85.8% | 69.4% |
| MMLU | 77.9% | 42.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 970 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 981 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 945 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Gemma 2B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemma 2B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.