Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen3 14B

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B

Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 14B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 42.5 to 38.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 25% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 4% for Qwen3 14B.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $1.40 for Qwen3 14B.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen3 14B specifications
	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
Provider	Google	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	40.4	35.0
Released	2026-03-03	2025-04
Weights	Proprietary	Open
Context window	1.05M	131K
Max output	66K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.25	$0.35
Output $ / M tokens	$1.50	$1.40
Results tracked	38	12

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
SciCode	41.9%	31.6%
LMArena WebDev	1256	—
WeirdML	52.2%	—
LMArena Coding	1400	—
ALE-Bench	797.73	—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	41%
DeepResearch Bench	37.3%	—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark	67.2%	49.1%
CritPt	1.1%	0%
Chess Puzzles	25%	4%
DTBench	76.8%	64%
LMCA	35%	18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index	144.45	138.23
NYT Connections (extended)	8.2%	—
EnigmaEval	3%	—
Thematic Generalization	63.3%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1407	—
ForecastBench	54.4	—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	80%	66.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	27.7%	—
LMArena Math	1427	—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond	81.8%	63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	8.2%	5.4%
Humanity's Last Exam	8.6%	—
LMArena Expert	1397	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
LMArena Vision	1240	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English	1410	—
LMArena Chinese	1461	—
LMArena French	1423	—
LMArena German	1429	—
LMArena Japanese	1411	—
LMArena Korean	1393	—
LMArena Russian	1420	—
LMArena Spanish	1420	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following	1376	—

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	62.5%
LMArena Longer Query	1394	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Qwen3 14B
LMArena Text	1416	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1401	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1417	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen3 14B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen3 14B?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3 14B lists at $0.35 and $1.40.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.5 vs 36.7); 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 Qwen3 14B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.