Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 40.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.4

Rank #141 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

44.7

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 29.6 to 22.3.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.444.7
Released2026-03-03—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked3817

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding14001488
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
ALE-Bench797.73—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts14071483
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles25%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
DTBench76.8%—
LMCA35%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.45—
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math14271473
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert13971489
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English14101465
LMArena Chinese14611534
LMArena French14231483
LMArena German14291487
LMArena Japanese14111497
LMArena Korean13931438
LMArena Russian14201472
LMArena Spanish14201470

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following13761467

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query13941477

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text14161471
LMArena Creative Writing14011464
LMArena Multi-Turn14171478

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 40.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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