Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17)
GoogleProprietary
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) is a vision-language model from Google. It ranks 101 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1187±7 from 35,914 votes. Its best category is Captioning (#24 of 34). License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
Who it suits
- Overall #101 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Strongest category: Captioning (#24 of 34).
- Proprietary; used through Google’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 |  o4-mini (2025-04-16) OpenAI | 1194 | 41,316 | Proprietary | +7 |
| 99 |  Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514) Anthropic | 1192 | 1,290 | Proprietary | +5 |
| 100 | Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514) Anthropic | 1191 | 1,144 | Proprietary | +4 |
| 101 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) Google | 1187 | 35,914 | Proprietary | |
| 102 | SStep-1o Turbo (202506) StepFun | 1186 | 1,895 | Proprietary | -1 |
| 103 | GPT-4.1 mini (2025-04-14) OpenAI | 1181 | 40,201 | Proprietary | -6 |
| 104 |  Hunyuan Large Vision Tencent | 1180 | 1,274 | Proprietary | -7 |
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 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 101 (1187); OCR rank 100 (1188); Diagrams rank 100 (1186); Homework rank 100 (1190); Captioning rank 24 (1184); Entity recognition rank 45 (1186); Creative writing rank 94 (1179); Humor rank 80 (1187); English rank 104 (1190); Chinese rank 89 (1194) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) at OCR?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) ranks 100 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1188 (10,500 votes).
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #89 of 128 (1194); English board: #104 of 167 (1190). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through Google’s apps or API.
How far is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) has 1187, 138 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 –.