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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 2 2b IT

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Gemma 2 2b IT Google

32.5

Rank #244 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2 2b IT in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 57.0 to 36.6.
  • Gemma 2 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index36.432.5
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3317

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Gemma 2 2b IT: 31.8 (#268)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Coding13731112
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Gemma 2 2b IT: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Gemma 2 2b IT: 20.5 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts13771113
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Gemma 2 2b IT: 30.1 (#212)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Math13731135
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.3 (#229)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Expert13731096
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Gemma 2 2b IT: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.5 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Non-English13691121
LMArena Chinese14041132
LMArena French13881156
LMArena German13901114
LMArena Japanese13591083
LMArena Korean13581055
LMArena Russian13731118
LMArena Spanish13961140

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Gemma 2 2b IT: 58.1 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Instruction Following13661118
IFEval81%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.2 (#245)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Longer Query13731130
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.6 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Text13791156
LMArena Creative Writing13661147
LMArena Multi-Turn13671118
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 2 2b IT?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Gemma 2 2b IT better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 31.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Gemma 2 2b IT share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 2b IT has 17.

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