Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite vs Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 leads Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 46.4 to 10.4, and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs 15.0x less per output token ($0.40 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 10 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite or Grok 4.7: which to pick
Only Grok 4.7 has a coding score, 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for output tokens 15.0x cheaper ($0.40 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 500K tokens).
- Shared results
- 10
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite only
- 18
- Grok 4.7 only
- 89
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 leads, 46.4 against 10.4.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has a GPQA Diamond result, 70.2%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has a AIME result, 42.1%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has a MMLU Pro result, 79.1%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1254.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a Vals Index result, 58.6%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens against 500K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite $0.0003, Grok 4.7 $0.0050 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite not benchmarked, Grok 4.7 66.7 from 5 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Reasoning, 36.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run): Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 6.8% against Grok 4.7 43.1%, 36.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite $0.40 against Grok 4.7 $6.00 per million output tokens, 15.0x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens, Grok 4.7 500K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Bars | Grok 4.7 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 1 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 5 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 10 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index21 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 84.5% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1637 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 71.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 28.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 86.2% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.5% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.7% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 73.4% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 42.9% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.5% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 59.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 57.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 47.6% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 29.5% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1432 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1421 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1663 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1627 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1586 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 10.4 | 46.4 | Grok 4.7 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.8 | 154.4 | Grok 4.7 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 86.4% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 60.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 50.1% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 3.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 52.3% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 34.2% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.1% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 18.3% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.3% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 10.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.2% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 19.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 54.6% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $10,537 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 70.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 82.7% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.2% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 75.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 62.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.8% | 43.1% | Grok 4.7 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 92.7% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 90.2% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 61.4% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 41.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 29.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1415 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1439 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1427 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1254 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1309 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 42.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| AA Math Index | 53.3 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 53.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 98.1% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 53.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 17.1% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 26.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1414 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1435 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 82.0% | 84.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 57.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 66.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 57.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 88.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 34.2% | 49.5% | Grok 4.7 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 56.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1419 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1395 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1423 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1389 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1254 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1275 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1313 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1235 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1270 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1271 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 78.0% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 58.6% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 76.9% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.6% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 30.8% | 40.8% | Grok 4.7 |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 75.8% | 89.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| IFBench | 49.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 55.7% | 80.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| DTBench | 62.8% | 96.0% | Grok 4.7 |
| LMCA | 18.1% | 49.4% | Grok 4.7 |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 20.8% | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1399 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1406 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1381 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1231 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1411 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1386 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1449 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1366 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1359 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1383 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1431 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1406 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1399 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1420 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1394 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1416 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1394 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1376 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1229 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1250 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1241 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1217 | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4.7 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | xAI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 22, 2025 | September 21, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 500K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $2.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.40 | $6.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 66.7 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 5 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite better than Grok 4.7 for coding?
Only Grok 4.7 has a coding score, 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for output tokens 15.0x cheaper ($0.40 vs $6.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 500K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite or Grok 4.7?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Grok 4.7 costs $2.00 and $6.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite or Grok 4.7?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, with 1.05M tokens against 500K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite vs Grok 4.7 comparison based on?
10 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Grok 4.7's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.