Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen3-1.7B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 39.5 to 15.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 80% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 8.1% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.426.2
Released2026-03-032025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked384

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
LMArena Coding1400—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles25%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%8.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
LMArena Math1427—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond81.8%38%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1397—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1410—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1423—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1393—
LMArena Russian1420—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1376—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen3-1.7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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