# Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5.1

> GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-lite-vs-gpt-5-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 32

## Summary

- They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1 leads 52.2 to 34.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 34.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 80.2% for GPT-5.1.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 49.0 |
| Rank | 194 | 53 |
| Context | — | 400K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185)
- GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | 72.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1454 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 68% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 66% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1395 |
| SciCode | — | 43.3% |
| GSO | — | 13.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.8% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,192 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —
- GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 47.6% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 42.8% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1199 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 1,473 |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210)
- GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | 95.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | 1457 |
| DTBench | 52.5% | 90.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | 72.1% |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | 58.1 |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | 78.8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 17.6% |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 72.8% |
| CritPt | — | 4.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 32% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 11.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| LMCA | — | 43.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 149.64 |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196)
- GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | 46.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | 94.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1309 | 1447 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 88.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 31% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 12.5% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189)
- GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | 57.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | 44.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | 1470 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 23.7% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 48% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.9% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109)
- GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | 1250 |
| VPCT | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1403 |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161)
- GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | 1431 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | 1495 |
| LMArena French | 1347 | 1450 |
| LMArena German | 1306 | 1438 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 1401 |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | 1435 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163)
- GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | 93.3% |
| IFEval | 82.4% | 93.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1443 |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160)
- GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1447 |
| CL-bench | — | 23.7% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 17.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177)
- GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | 1443 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1427 |
| WildBench | 79% | 86.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | 1450 |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | 80.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GPT-5.1?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GPT-5.1 better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.1 share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.1 has 63.