# Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

> Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-5-flash-vs-granite-3-0-2b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct 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 27.0.
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 170 | 286 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.50 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1424 | 1090 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 28.7% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 41.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 20.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 661.88 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 17.1% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 56.2% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 41.1% | — |
| BALROG | 33.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 548.84 | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1422 | 1073 |
| 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: 39.9 (#98)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1415 | 1117 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 38.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1426 | 1064 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 16.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1253 | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
| VPCT | 46.2% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 36.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1409 | 1033 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | 1070 |
| LMArena Russian | 1415 | 1045 |
| LMArena French | 1433 | — |
| LMArena German | 1418 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1405 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1405 | 1056 |
| IFEval | 89.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1419 | 1070 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1400 | 1046 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1408 | 1053 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1137 | — |
| WildBench | 81.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.