Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen1.5-32B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 41.9 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 81.8% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.830.5
Released2026-03-032024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3821

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding14001155
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14071130
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), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math14281155
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), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond81.8%30.7%
LMArena Expert13981126
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English14111106
LMArena Chinese14611177
LMArena French14241101
LMArena German14291058
LMArena Japanese14131027
LMArena Korean13921008
LMArena Russian14201073
LMArena Spanish14211089

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13771116

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query13941146

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text14161137
LMArena Creative Writing14011083
LMArena Multi-Turn14171140

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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