Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-Flash in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 33.7 to 22.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 82.9% for Qwen3.5-Flash.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.842.5
Released2025-02-052026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked3232

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding13221412
LMArena WebDev—1244
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts13241403
DTBench52.5%82.9%
Chess Puzzles—21%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.98
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Math13091407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Expert13051407
GPQA Diamond—82.3%
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

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

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English13231385
LMArena Chinese13391446
LMArena French13471412
LMArena German13061390
LMArena Japanese13011368
LMArena Korean13251344
LMArena Russian13281379
LMArena Spanish13131400

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following13051374
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query13201392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text13301397
LMArena Creative Writing13191343
LMArena Multi-Turn13071393
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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