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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 31.1 to 22.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 50% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 63% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.843.0
Released2025-02-052025-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked3225

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding13221440
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13241428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Omni-MATH37.4%46.7%
LMArena Math13091440
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
MMLU-Pro72%78.6%
GPQA (HELM)50%63%
LMArena Expert13051417
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English13231407
LMArena Chinese13391460
LMArena French13471413
LMArena German13061417
LMArena Japanese13011395
LMArena Korean13251364
LMArena Russian13281404
LMArena Spanish13131435

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
IFEval82.4%81%
LMArena Instruction Following13051389
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13201403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text13301417
LMArena Creative Writing13191334
WildBench79%80.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn13071416
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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