Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 3.5 Flash in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.8 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 1.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 72.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 3.5 Flash specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index35.154.2
Released2024-12-062026-05-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$9
Results tracked5454

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
WeirdML25.8%62.6%
LMArena Coding13501492
SWE-bench Verified—79.3%
DeepSWE—37.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
LMArena WebDev—1499
SciCode—53.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—
ALE-Bench—911.02

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
APEX-Agents—27.5%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
GBAEval—6.7%
GDP.pdf—14%
Vending-Bench 2—5,396

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
ARC-AGI-21.3%72.1%
SimpleBench31.1%76.7%
EnigmaEval1.1%25.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461488
DTBench63.2%94.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36154.46
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)—92.6%
ARC-AGI-1—92.5%
CritPt—13.1%
Chess Puzzles—50%
EBR-Bench—4.8%
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—32%
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—47.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—58.1%
ForecastBench—59
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%95.6%
LMArena Math13521504
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%39%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—62.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—76.3%
ProofBench—31%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—14.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
GPQA Diamond64.1%92.8%
LMArena Expert13391495
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—66.2%
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Vision11581310
GeoBench77%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
LMArena Document—1463

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Non-English13421476
LMArena Chinese13731526
LMArena French13911490
LMArena German13531492
LMArena Japanese12941486
LMArena Korean13131451
LMArena Russian13511493
LMArena Spanish13631480

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following13361467
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Longer Query13441482
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Text13541482
LMArena Creative Writing13401470
LMArena Multi-Turn13501481
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
EQ-Bench 4—1087
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemini 3.5 Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemini 3.5 Flash share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54.

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