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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.5

Rank #148 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 49.6.
  • Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.40 for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index37.040.5
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.06
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.25
Results tracked3311

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Coding13731380
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771329
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Expert13731384
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Non-English13691302
LMArena Chinese14041366
LMArena Russian13731285
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Instruction Following13671301
IFEval81%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Longer Query13731324
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Text13791320
LMArena Creative Writing13671236
LMArena Multi-Turn13661301
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.

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