Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs 2.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 42.1 to 32.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 62.8% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 77.1% for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $1.13 for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.038.8
Released2025-06-172026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$1.13
Results tracked3313

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
ALE-Bench325.9326.4
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
DTBench62.8%77.1%
LMCA18.1%31%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1369—
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1367—
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1366—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs 2.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3.6 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Flash lists at $0.19 and $1.13.

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 Qwen3.6 Flash share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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