# Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemma 2B

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 13

## Summary

- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 2B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 48.5.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Google |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 228 | 307 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1010 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 94.2 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1009 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 79.7% | 42.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | — |
| LMArena German | 1353 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 970 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 981 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 945 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemma 2B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemma 2B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.4 vs 29.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemma 2B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.