Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3 8B

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 8B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 22.0 to 16.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 59.7% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.833.7
Released2025-02-052025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.18
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked3211

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
DTBench52.5%59.7%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1324—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.17
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—56.1%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math1309—

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond—56.8%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
GPQA (HELM)50%—
LMArena Expert1305—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
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 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1305—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1320—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
LMArena Text1330—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
WildBench79%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1307—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3 8B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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