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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

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Strongest in Factual grounding (#3 of 101), weakest in Harm refusal (#156 of 300). Above par in 7 of 20 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Sonnet 5 and Muse Spark 1.1 and ahead of Ling 3.0 Flash and O3 Mini.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety54.4#64/337
Factual grounding66.8#3/101
Safe-prompt compliance58.2#14/82
Fairness55.3#65/300
Harm refusal50#156/300
Knowledge47.8#100/138
Academic knowledge47.4#92/123
Professional47.2#111/168
Legal52.9#55/151
Finance46.9#103/151
Medical43.9#116/140
Agents49.6#125/268
Tool use49.3#38/81
Reasoning45.5#125/178
Science45.9#89/122
Mathematics43.6#103/140
Core abilities45.8#139/204
General intelligence44#142/204
Human preference54.6#145/342
Human preference54.6#145/342

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, left for the other.

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 12 · lost 0
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 12 · lost 0
Command R Pluswon 14 · lost 0
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 20 · lost 0
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 18 · lost 1
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 13 · lost 1
Mistral Smallwon 16 · lost 2
GPT-4o Miniwon 15 · lost 2
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 15 · lost 2
Mistral Medium 3.5won 12 · lost 2
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 12 · lost 3
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 11 · lost 3
Command Awon 14 · lost 5
GPT OSS 20Bwon 13 · lost 5
Mistral Largewon 11 · lost 5
GPT-4owon 11 · lost 5
O3 Miniwon 10 · lost 6
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 7 · lost 5
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 7 · lost 7
Mistral Large 3won 8 · lost 8
Gemma 4 31Bwon 8 · lost 8
GPT-5 Nanowon 10 · lost 10
DeepSeek V3won 9 · lost 10
Grok 4.3won 8 · lost 9
GPT-5.4 Miniwon 7 · lost 8
MiniMax M3won 8 · lost 10
Kimi K2.6won 8 · lost 10
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 8 · lost 11
GPT-5.4 Nanowon 6 · lost 10
GPT OSS 120Bwon 7 · lost 12
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 5 · lost 9
Claude Haiku 4.5won 7 · lost 13
Mimo V2.5won 4 · lost 8
DeepSeek R1won 6 · lost 12
DeepSeek V3.2won 6 · lost 13
Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 5 · lost 11
Qwen3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 9
Kimi K2won 6 · lost 14
Grok 3won 5 · lost 12
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 12
GPT-6 Lunawon 4 · lost 10
Kimi K2.5won 5 · lost 13
GPT-6 Solwon 4 · lost 11
Grok 4won 5 · lost 14
GLM-4.6won 5 · lost 14
Nemotron 3 Ultrawon 3 · lost 9
GLM-4.7won 3 · lost 9
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 4 · lost 12
O4 Miniwon 5 · lost 15
GPT-4.1won 5 · lost 15
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 4 · lost 13
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 4 · lost 13
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 4 · lost 13
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 13
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 13
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 4 · lost 13
Gemini 3 Flashwon 3 · lost 10
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 4 · lost 14
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 3 · lost 11
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 15
O1won 3 · lost 12
MiniMax M2.7won 3 · lost 12
GLM-5won 3 · lost 12
GLM-5.1won 3 · lost 12
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 4 · lost 16
Gemini 3 Prowon 4 · lost 16
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 3 · lost 13
GLM-4.5won 3 · lost 13
Claude Opus 4.6won 3 · lost 14
Inkling Smallwon 2 · lost 10
Claude Opus 4won 3 · lost 15
Inklingwon 3 · lost 15
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 3 · lost 15
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 3 · lost 15
GPT-5.4won 3 · lost 15
GLM-5.2won 3 · lost 15
GPT-5.6 Solwon 3 · lost 15
Claude Sonnet 4won 3 · lost 16
Grok 3 Miniwon 2 · lost 11
Claude Opus 4.1won 2 · lost 11
GPT-6 Astrawon 2 · lost 11
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 2 · lost 11
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 3 · lost 17
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 2 · lost 12
Grok 4 Fastwon 2 · lost 13
Claude Opus 4.5won 2 · lost 15
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 2 · lost 15
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 2 · lost 15
Claude Opus 4.7won 2 · lost 16
O3won 2 · lost 17
GPT-5won 2 · lost 17
GPT-5 Miniwon 2 · lost 18
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 2 · lost 18
MiniMax M2.5won 1 · lost 12
Qwen3 Maxwon 1 · lost 12
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 1 · lost 14
GPT-5.1won 1 · lost 16
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 1 · lost 17
GPT-5.5won 1 · lost 17
GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 18
Muse Sparkwon 0 · lost 12
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 13
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 13
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 14
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 14
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 14
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 14
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 14
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 14
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 14
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 17
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 17
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 17
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 17
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 17
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 18

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

6 publications, 19 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LMArena Text 1375
BFCL ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
BFCL v4 36.87%
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Kagi LLM Benchmark 40.5%
Vals.ai ↗10 measuresread 2026-09-26
Vals · LegalBench 82.04%Vals · CorpFin 57.58%Vals · TaxEval 64.72%Vals · MortgageTax 57.55%Vals · MedQA 88.87%Vals · MedCode 34.19%Vals · MedScribe 66.88%Vals · GPQA Diamond 70.2%Vals · MMLU Pro 79.12%Vals · AIME 42.08%
HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-09-26
HELM Safety · HarmBench 67%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 96.5%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 98.7%HELM Safety · BBQ 94.9%HELM Safety · XSTest 97.8%
Vectara · Factual consistency 96.7%

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