Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 31.8 to 15.3.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.329.7
Released2025-02-052024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked327

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1346—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1321—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.4 vs 38.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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