Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.5-9B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-9B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 35.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 71.2% for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.833.8
Released2025-02-052026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked3210

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
SciCode—27.5%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
DTBench52.5%71.2%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—24.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.46
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—61.7%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond—79%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
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), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3.5-9B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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