Noometry

Model comparison

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 37.9 to 22.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Instruction Following: 78.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 58.7% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.833.4
Released2025-02-052024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked3231

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Coding47.1%56.9%
LMArena Coding13221276
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%42.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13241251
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%49.9%
LiveBench54.3%46.2%
DTBench52.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.49
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—83%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Math58.1%46.6%
LMArena Math13091251
Omni-MATH37.4%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert13051221
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

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

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English13231205
LMArena Chinese13391222
LMArena Russian13281228
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%58.7%
LMArena Instruction Following13051223
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query13201251

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text13301230
LMArena Creative Writing13191174
LMArena Multi-Turn13071222
LiveBench Language34.3%23.3%
WildBench79%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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