Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 35.5 to 15.3.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.429.7
Released2025-06-172024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$2.80
Results tracked337

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
WeirdML35.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1373—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93128.52
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1369—
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1358—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1366—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1366—
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1367—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 32B Instruct lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.0 vs 38.1); 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 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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