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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.9

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.829.9
Released2025-02-052024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.80
Output $ / M tokens—$8.40
Results tracked326

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision11001107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1347—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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