Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 40.7 to 16.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.830.1
Released2026-03-032024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$2.80
Results tracked387

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1400—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles25%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47128.52
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%7.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
LMArena Math1428—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond81.8%46.1%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1398—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1411—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1424—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1413—
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Russian1420—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.7 (#131), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1377—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 32B Instruct lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.8 vs 38.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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