Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 35.5 to 11.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 48% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 29.4% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.17 / $0.70 for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.428.6
Released2025-06-172024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.17
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.70
Results tracked3315

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WeirdML35.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1373—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
DTBench62.8%47.7%
LMCA18.1%6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93118.44
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Omni-MATH48%29.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
MMLU-Pro53.7%53.9%
GPQA (HELM)30.9%34.1%
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
LMArena Expert1373—
MMLU—72.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1369—
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1358—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval81%74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1366—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench81.8%73.1%
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1366—
LMArena Multi-Turn1367—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen2.5 7B 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 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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 7B Instruct share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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