Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Step 3.7 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Step 3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Step 3.7 Flash StepFun

37.3

Rank #207 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Step 3.7 Flash in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Step 3.7 Flash leads 42.9 to 38.0.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $1.11 for Step 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.
  • Step 3.7 Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
ProviderGoogleStepFun
Noometry Index37.037.3
Released2025-06-172026-05-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M256K
Max output66K256K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.18
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$1.11
Results tracked335

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Category by category

Coding Step 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Step 3.7 Flash: 40.0 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
ALE-Bench325.9694.12
SciCode—40%
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Step 3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Step 3.7 Flash: 21.6 (#219)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—39.7%
CritPt—2.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Step 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Step 3.7 Flash: 42.9 (#82)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—68.5%
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Step 3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Step 3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Step 3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
LMArena Non-English1369—
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Step 3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Step 3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Step 3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteStep 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1367—
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1366—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Step 3.7 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Step 3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Step 3.7 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Step 3.7 Flash lists at $0.18 and $1.11.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Step 3.7 Flash better for coding?

Step 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 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 256K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Step 3.7 Flash share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Step 3.7 Flash has 5.

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