Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 47.9 to 31.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 80.5% for Qwen3.5 Plus.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.342.3
Released2025-02-052026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked3215

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—
ALE-Bench—621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
DTBench52.5%80.5%
Chess Puzzles—22%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.79
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1323—
LMArena Chinese1339—
LMArena French1346—
LMArena German1306—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1325—
LMArena Russian1328—
LMArena Spanish1313—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

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

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1321—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Plus
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 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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