Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2-72B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 40.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 35.2% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 11.3% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.030.0
Released2025-06-172024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3326

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
WeirdML35.2%11.3%
LMArena Coding13731196
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts13771191
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94125.28
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Math13731235
Omni-MATH48%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Expert13731171
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English13691176
LMArena Chinese14041240
LMArena French13881170
LMArena German13891151
LMArena Japanese13591111
LMArena Korean13601083
LMArena Russian13731169
LMArena Spanish13961169

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following13671181
IFEval81%—

Long Context Qwen2-72B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query13731192
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Text13791203
LMArena Creative Writing13671181
LMArena Multi-Turn13661196
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen2-72B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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