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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) is a closed-weights language model from Google, released February 2025.

Catalogue identity notes

Comparison-only. Arena entry 'gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05' (text, vision). LMArena's leaderboard table (arena-leaderboard space @6f2eeeb) labels 'gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05' as 'Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite' (Google, Proprietary), linking https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-2.0-flash-lite. Released 2025-02: Gemini API changelog, February 5, 2025: 'Released gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05'. Gemini API deprecations: shut down December 9, 2025.

59.5±2.5comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 3 benchmark results across 2 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05), out of 828 with a score, then more from Google.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
241Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B Thinking Alibaba60±1api $0.75/M +local~21GB2025-09
242Mistral Small 4 (119B-A6.5B) Mistral60±2api $0.26/M +local~40GB2026-03
243Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) Google60±3comparison only2025-02
244QwQ-32B Alibaba59±1local~21GB2025-03
245OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B NVIDIA59±2local~21GB2025-07
more from Google
9Gemini 4 Argon (limited preview) Google82±1limited preview2026-09
23Gemini 3.8 Flash Google77±1api $1.50/M2026-09
32Gemini 3.7 Flash Google76±1api $1.50/M2026-08

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$ what it's good at

chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▆█▇▇▇▃ #181 of 463 * · 56% of its score · 1 test

Beats MiniMax-M2, MiniCPM5 2B, Granite 4.2 30B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LFM2.5 1.2B Thinking, LFM2.5 8B-A1B, LFM2.5 2.6B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena (text)1353.5 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 198/379avg 1268▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 56%blunt
vision & documents▁▁▃▃▂▃▅▄▇▇█▃ #122 of 182 * · 39% of its score · 1 test

Beats DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Llama 4 Maverick (402B-A17B), GPT-4o (2024-05-13), GPT-4o (2024-11-20) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena vision (style controlled)1136.0 ✎▁▁▂▂▂▂▄▅▅▆██ beats 41/145avg 1068▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%blunt
other tests1 not in a task · 2.3% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Vectara hallucination leaderboard, 2025 dataset (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)98.8% ✎▁▁▂▃▄▄█▆▃▂▃▁ beats 135/140very easy · avg 94%▇ 2.3%blunt · maxed out · noisy

$ where to run it

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$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 95%, Vectara hallucination leaderb… 2%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
LMArena leaderboard dataset2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 95%CC BY 4.0
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (vectara/hallucination-leaderboard repository)1▇ 2%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 3%
weighted average= 59.5

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