Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 50.4 to 34.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 37.4% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 71.8% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.843.5
Released2025-02-052025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked3249

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding13221445
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML—41%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts13241433
DTBench52.5%80.3%
ForecastBench57.159.7
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—29.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.85
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
Omni-MATH37.4%71.8%
LMArena Math13091432
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LiveBench Math58.1%—
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
MMLU-Pro72%84.4%
GPQA (HELM)50%72.7%
LMArena Expert13051463
GPQA Diamond—80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen3 235B-A22B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English13231409
LMArena Chinese13391481
LMArena French13471445
LMArena German13061433
LMArena Japanese13011399
LMArena Korean13251391
LMArena Russian13281411
LMArena Spanish13131430

Instruction Following Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
IFEval82.4%83.5%
LMArena Instruction Following13051408
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—

Long Context Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query13201426
Fiction.LiveBench—75%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text13301419
LMArena Creative Writing13191384
WildBench79%86.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn13071432
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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