Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 40.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 50.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 91.6% for o1.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.840.9
Released2025-02-052024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked3252

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), o1: 46.1 (#70)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LiveBench Coding47.1%69.7%
LMArena Coding13221367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), o1: 27.9 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%91.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts13241371
DTBench52.5%74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%65.5%
LiveBench54.3%75.7%
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
ForecastBench57.1—

Math o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), o1: 36.1 (#175)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LiveBench Math58.1%80.3%
LMArena Math13091388
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), o1: 41.5 (#110)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LMArena Expert13051361
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—11.7%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), o1: 34.2 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LMArena Vision11001168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), o1: 48.6 (#142)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LMArena Non-English13231358
LMArena Chinese13391394
LMArena French13471344
LMArena German13061337
LMArena Japanese13011346
LMArena Korean13251396
LMArena Russian13281356
LMArena Spanish13131345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), o1: 74.8 (#86)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%81.5%
LMArena Instruction Following13051367
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), o1: 50.3 (#9)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LMArena Longer Query13201378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), o1: 55.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-Liteo1
LMArena Text13301366
LMArena Creative Writing13191348
LMArena Multi-Turn13071369
LiveBench Language34.3%65.4%
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
WildBench79%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and o1 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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