Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.2

Rank #117 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 27B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 27B leads 52.4 to 35.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 78.1% for Qwen3.6 27B.
  • Qwen3.6 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.842.2
Released2025-02-052026-04-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$3.60
Results tracked3211

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 27B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3.6 27B: 39.1 (#163)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
SciCode—37.3%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 27B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3.6 27B: 25.0 (#153)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
DTBench52.5%78.1%
CritPt—0.9%
Chess Puzzles—22%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—34.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.5
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3.6 27B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3.6 27B: 48.5 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—35.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.1%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 27B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3.6 27B: 52.4 (#63)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
GPQA Diamond—85.9%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
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), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3.6 27B: 50.3 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
EQ-Bench 4—1026
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3.6 27B?

Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen3.6 27B better for coding?

Qwen3.6 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3.6 27B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 27B has 11.

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