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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen Plus

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen Plus in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.0 to 23.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 40.5% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 63.3% for Qwen Plus.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.20 for Qwen Plus.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.037.1
Released2025-06-172024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$1.20
Results tracked3320

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Coding13731328
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%63.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13771317
DTBench62.8%81.1%
LMCA18.1%24%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Math13731326
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—17.8%
Omni-MATH48%—
MATH Level 5—65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Expert13731328
GPQA Diamond—48.1%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English13691310
LMArena Chinese14041347
LMArena Japanese13591251
LMArena Russian13731323
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13671303
IFEval81%—

Long Context Qwen Plus leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query13731324
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Plus
LMArena Text13791326
LMArena Creative Writing13671293
LMArena Multi-Turn13661336
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen Plus?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.0 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen Plus?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen Plus lists at $0.40 and $1.20.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen Plus better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.5 vs 38.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen Plus share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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