Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025)
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) (Google DeepMind) was released on Jun 17, 2025. In the Epoch AI capability ranking (ECI), it ranks #150 out of 267 models, with 133.95.
Where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) stands out and where it falls behind, by the numbers
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) has published results on 5 tests compiled by Epoch AI. The yardstick here is its generation: its position among the models released between Sep 20, 2024 and Sep 15, 2025 that took the same test. Against the whole archive, which includes 2023 models, a recent release lands near the top of almost everything, and that says nothing.
Where it stands out
Tests where it sits in the top third of its own generation.
It is not in the top third of its generation on any test with 6 or more models compared.
Where it falls behind
Tests where it sits in the bottom half of its own generation.
See all 5 tests, one by one
| Test | Score | In its generation | Overall | Test record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dtbench | 62.8% | #27 / 44 | #104 / 148 | 98.9% Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Lmca | 18.07 | #21 / 34 | #95 / 121 | 68.23 Claude Opus 5.5 |
| WeirdML | 35.2% | #27 / 36 | #85 / 112 | 93.6% GPT-6 Astra |
| ALE-Bench | 326 | #13 / 14 | #79 / 82 | 2,951 GPT-6 Astra |
| Fiction.liveBench | 21.9% | #26 / 28 (tied with 1) | #29 / 31 | 100.0% o3 |
For each test, the model's best effort level counts, as in the ranking. Source of the scores: Epoch AI, under CC BY 4.0.
What to compare Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) with
The models from other labs closest in capability and released in the same period, at most two per lab. Click any of them to see its page.
| Model | Lab | ECI | ELO | LiveBench | Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B | DeepSeek | 135.44 | n/a | n/a | Jan 20, 2025 |
| GPT-4.1 mini | OpenAI | 135.00 | n/a | n/a | Apr 14, 2025 |
| Mistral Medium 3 | Mistral AI | 134.06 | n/a | n/a | May 7, 2025 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) | Google DeepMind | 133.95 | n/a | n/a | Jun 17, 2025 |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) | Anthropic | 133.53 | 1,342 | n/a | Oct 22, 2024 |
| Magistral Small 1.0 | Mistral AI | 133.20 | n/a | n/a | Jun 10, 2025 |
| Qwen2.5-Max | Alibaba | 132.53 | 1,396 | n/a | Jan 25, 2025 |
Other models from Google DeepMind
The models from the same lab closest in time, newest first.
| Model | Release | ECI | ELO | LiveBench | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Flash (Sep 2025) | Sep 25, 2025 | 143.00 | 1,450 | n/a | API access |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) | Jun 17, 2025 | 133.95 | n/a | n/a | API access |
| gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 (Default thinking length) | Jun 17, 2025 | 133.92 | 1,401 | n/a | API access |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro (Jun 2025) | Jun 5, 2025 | 145.31 | 1,507 | n/a | API access |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp (Mar 2025) | Mar 25, 2025 | 144.20 | n/a | n/a | API access |
| Gemma 3 27B | Mar 12, 2025 | 130.05 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (restricted use) |
| Gemma 3 12B | Mar 12, 2025 | 123.49 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (restricted use) |
| Gemma 3 4B | Mar 12, 2025 | 116.01 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (restricted use) |
| Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp (Feb 2025) | Feb 5, 2025 | 135.08 | n/a | n/a | Hosted access (no API) |
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What people ask about Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025)
Where does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) rank among AI models?
In the ROO3 AI Benchmark, ordered by the Epoch AI ECI, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025) ranks #150 out of 267 models, with an ECI of 133.95. The ECI is a composite index that combines several hard benchmarks into a single scale. The position changes when a new model comes out, and the page is refreshed six times a day.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
From the same three sources as the ranking, all openly licensed: Epoch AI (ECI and individual tests, CC BY 4.0), Arena (human-preference ELO, CC BY 4.0) and LiveBench (overall average, CC BY-SA 4.0). ROO3 does not measure any model. When the page shows a figure published by the maker itself, it appears in the written analysis, labeled as the maker's, and never enters the ranking.
Where each number comes from
Epoch AI, "AI Benchmarking Hub". Published at epoch.ai. Data under the CC BY 4.0 licence, reordered by roo3.co.
The Arena (LMArena) leaderboard, from the public lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We are not affiliated with the Arena.
LiveBench, by the LiveBench team, published at livebench.ai under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The overall average is recomputed by roo3.co with the same formula as the website (average of the categories), and those numbers stay under CC BY-SA 4.0. We are not affiliated with LiveBench.
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