Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen1.5-110B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 38.0.
  • Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.834.2
Released2026-03-032024-04-25
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3820

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding14001184
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts14071168
ForecastBench54.457.7
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math14281185
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert13981144
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English14111142
LMArena Chinese14611206
LMArena French14241151
LMArena German14291123
LMArena Japanese14131074
LMArena Korean13921044
LMArena Russian14201118
LMArena Spanish14211142

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following13771158

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query13941157

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text14161175
LMArena Creative Writing14011148
LMArena Multi-Turn14171160

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen1.5-110B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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