Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google

40.8

Rank #144 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 Flash in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 29.0 to 22.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 27.7% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 22.5% for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Qwen3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.19 / $1.13 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 LiteQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.838.8
Released2026-03-032026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$1.50$1.13
Results tracked3813

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.8 (#188), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
ALE-Bench797.73326.4
LMArena WebDev1256—
SciCode41.9%—
WeirdML52.2%—
LMArena Coding1400—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 30.2 (#79), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
DeepResearch Bench37.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.9 (#186), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
Chess Puzzles25%20%
DTBench76.8%77.1%
LMCA35%31%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.47143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)8.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval3%—
Thematic Generalization63.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
ForecastBench54.4—

Math Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 40.7 (#90), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)27.7%22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%84.4%
LMArena Math1428—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.9 (#104), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond81.8%83.3%
Humanity's Last Exam8.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1398—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.4 (#60), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision1240—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.3 (#86), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
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), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1377—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#122), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1394—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 60.9 (#94), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Flash LiteQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1416—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
LMArena Multi-Turn1417—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite or Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $1.13 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite lists at $0.25 and $1.50.

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 Qwen3.6 Flash share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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