Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05)
GoogleProprietary
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) is a vision-language model from Google. It ranks 131 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1100±11 from 3,991 votes. License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: OCR, Diagrams, Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor.
Who it suits
- Overall #131 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Proprietary; used through Google’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 |  Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620) Anthropic | 1120 | 21,624 | Proprietary | +20 |
| 129 |  Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct Meta | 1118 | 6,446 | Llama | +18 |
| 130 |  Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct Alibaba | 1107 | 3,768 | Qwen | +7 |
| 131 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) Google | 1100 | 3,991 | Proprietary | |
| 132 | Claude 3.5 Haiku (20241022) Anthropic | 1093 | 1,398 | Proprietary | -7 |
| 133 |  GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09) OpenAI | 1090 | 13,391 | Proprietary | -10 |
| 134 |  Pixtral Large (2411) Mistral | 1089 | 5,423 | MRL | -11 |
Alternatives · More from Google
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) Google | 1315 | 4,645 | Proprietary |
| 8 | Gemini 3.7 Flash (High) Google | 1314 | 5,369 | Proprietary |
| 13 | Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) Google | 1308 | 13,862 | Proprietary |
| 14 | Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) Google | 1306 | 14,061 | Proprietary |
| 16 | Gemini 3 Pro Google | 1305 | 13,623 | Proprietary |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 | Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 131 (1100); English rank 129 (1121); Chinese rank 114 (1026) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) at OCR?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) is not on LMArena’s OCR board yet, so there is no score to cite.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #114 of 128 (1026); English board: #129 of 167 (1121). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through Google’s apps or API.
How far is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05) has 1100, 225 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.