Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2.5-Max

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 41.4 to 33.3.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.040.7
Released2025-06-172025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3327

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5-Max leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding13731359
WeirdML35.2%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts13771360
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94132.53
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
DTBench62.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
LMCA18.1%—
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math13731369
Omni-MATH48%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Max leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Expert13731337
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Confabulations—21.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English13691352
LMArena Chinese14041382
LMArena French13881396
LMArena German13891350
LMArena Japanese13591300
LMArena Korean13601304
LMArena Russian13731353
LMArena Spanish13961377

Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Max leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following13671335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%
IFEval81%—

Long Context Qwen2.5-Max leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query13731358
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text13791367
LMArena Creative Writing13671339
LMArena Multi-Turn13661364
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
WildBench81.8%—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen2.5-Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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