Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3 8B

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 8B in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 22.2 to 16.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 47.2% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 62.1% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.033.7
Released2025-06-172025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.18
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.70
Results tracked3311

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%42.6%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
DTBench62.8%59.7%
LMCA18.1%8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94136.17
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—56.1%
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%4.8%
GPQA Diamond—56.8%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
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 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Qwen3 8B: —

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3 8B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3 8B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen3 8B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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