Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen1.5-72B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 32.1 to 11.5.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.430.3
Released2025-06-172024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3322

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding13731166
WeirdML35.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench325.9—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771148
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math13731164
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Expert13731136
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English13691135
LMArena Chinese14041186
LMArena French13881158
LMArena German13901084
LMArena Japanese13591061
LMArena Korean13581049
LMArena Russian13731104
LMArena Spanish13961110

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following13661142
IFEval81%—

Long Context Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query13731157
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text13791166
LMArena Creative Writing13661137
LMArena Multi-Turn13671160
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen1.5-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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