Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 40.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 32.9 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 27.7% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 18.2% for Qwen3.5-Flash.
  • Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $1.50 for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.442.3
Released2026-03-032026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$0.40
Results tracked3832

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.9 (#234)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena WebDev12561243
LMArena Coding14001412
ALE-Bench797.73221.8
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Qwen3.5-Flash: 32.9 (#63)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
Chess Puzzles25%21%
LMArena Hard Prompts14071404
DTBench76.8%82.9%
LMCA35%29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45143.98
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Qwen3.5-Flash: 36.3 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%84.4%
LMArena Math14271407
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
GPQA Diamond81.8%82.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%10.5%
LMArena Expert13971408
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.7 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English14101385
LMArena Chinese14611446
LMArena French14231412
LMArena German14291389
LMArena Japanese14111369
LMArena Korean13931344
LMArena Russian14201379
LMArena Spanish14201399

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.8 (#133)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following13761374

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#119)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query13941392

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Qwen3.5-Flash: 58.2 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text14161397
LMArena Creative Writing14011343
LMArena Multi-Turn14171393

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 40.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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