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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

37.6

Rank #201 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 51.3 to 35.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 73.9% for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.837.6
Released2025-02-052026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked3214

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.2 (#196)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
SciCode—35.8%
WeirdML—34.5%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 22.1 (#134)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench—23%

Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 28.0 (#109)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
DTBench52.5%73.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—41.6%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
Mystery Game Puzzles—22%
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—29.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—44.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.93
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 38.9 (#121)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.3 (#68)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
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 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.9 vs 37.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.

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