Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5-Codex

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5-Codex score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

GPT-5-Codex OpenAI

37.9

Rank #192 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5-Codex leads 30.9 to 22.0.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5-Codex specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.837.9
Released2025-02-052025-09-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked323

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5-Codex leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), GPT-5-Codex: 42.4 (#103)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
WeirdML—54.5%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, GPT-5-Codex: 31.0 (#72)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
Terminal-Bench—44.3%

Reasoning GPT-5-Codex leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), GPT-5-Codex: 30.9 (#83)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), GPT-5-Codex: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), GPT-5-Codex: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), GPT-5-Codex: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), GPT-5-Codex: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), GPT-5-Codex: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), GPT-5-Codex: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), GPT-5-Codex: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGPT-5-Codex
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than GPT-5-Codex?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5-Codex score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or GPT-5-Codex better for coding?

GPT-5-Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and GPT-5-Codex share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5-Codex has 3.

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