Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs 5.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus

Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

Summary

They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 46.0 to 32.5.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 18.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 36.4% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2.40 for Qwen3.5 Plus.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
Provider	Google	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	37.0	42.9
Released	2025-06-17	2026-02-16
Weights	Proprietary	Proprietary
Context window	1.05M	1M
Max output	66K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.10	$0.40
Output $ / M tokens	$0.40	$2.40
Results tracked	33	15

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
ALE-Bench	325.9	621.92
WeirdML	35.2%	—
LMArena Coding	1373	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	36.9%	—
Vending-Bench 2	—	0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
DTBench	62.8%	80.5%
LMCA	18.1%	36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index	133.94	146.78
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.5%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	22%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1377	—
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	17%

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	86.7%
Omni-MATH	48%	—
LMArena Math	1373	—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)	—	2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
Vectara Hallucination Rate	3.3%	10.7%
GPQA Diamond	—	84.8%
SimpleQA Verified	—	25.4%
MMLU-Pro	53.7%	—
GPQA (HELM)	30.9%	—
LMArena Expert	1373	—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision	1198	—
VPCT	30%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English	1369	—
LMArena Chinese	1404	—
LMArena French	1388	—
LMArena German	1389	—
LMArena Japanese	1359	—
LMArena Korean	1360	—
LMArena Russian	1373	—
LMArena Spanish	1396	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
IFEval	81%	—
LMArena Instruction Following	1367	—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
Fiction.LiveBench	47.2%	—
CL-bench	—	19.8%
CL-bench Life	—	12.4%
LMArena Longer Query	1373	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text	1379	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1367	—
WildBench	81.8%	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1366	—

Frequently asked questions

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

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3.5 Plus?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 Plus lists at $0.40 and $2.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

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

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.