Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2-72B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 35.0 to 21.2.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.830.0
Released2025-02-052024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3226

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Coding13221196
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241191
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.28
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Math13091235
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Expert13051171
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English13231176
LMArena Chinese13391240
LMArena French13471170
LMArena German13061151
LMArena Japanese13011111
LMArena Korean13251083
LMArena Russian13281169
LMArena Spanish13131169

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following13051181
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query13201192

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Text13301203
LMArena Creative Writing13191181
LMArena Multi-Turn13071196
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen2-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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