Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 45.2 to 33.3.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.045.3
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3317

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding13731487
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts13771483
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math13731474
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert13731489
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English13691465
LMArena Chinese14041534
LMArena French13881484
LMArena German13891487
LMArena Japanese13591495
LMArena Korean13601438
LMArena Russian13731471
LMArena Spanish13961470

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following13671467
IFEval81%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query13731476
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text13791470
LMArena Creative Writing13671464
LMArena Multi-Turn13661478
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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