Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen1.5-14B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.7

Rank #253 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 60.9 to 33.6.
  • Qwen1.5-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.832.7
Released2026-03-032024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3817

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Coding14001138
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Qwen1.5-14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14071113
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math14281125
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), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert13981094
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
MMLU—68.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Qwen1.5-14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English14111095
LMArena Chinese14611147
LMArena French14241116
LMArena German14291043
LMArena Japanese14131019
LMArena Russian14201046
LMArena Spanish14211085
LMArena Korean1392—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following13771102

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query13941113

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text14161128
LMArena Creative Writing14011091
LMArena Multi-Turn14171110

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen1.5-14B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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