Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen1.5-14B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.7

Rank #253 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.2 to 33.6.
  • Qwen1.5-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.532.7
Released2026-07-212024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3917

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Coding14531138
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Qwen1.5-14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411113
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Qwen1.5-14B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math14331125
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert14351094
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
MMLU—68.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Qwen1.5-14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English14271095
LMArena Chinese14691147
LMArena French14511116
LMArena German14541043
LMArena Japanese14271019
LMArena Russian14431046
LMArena Spanish14421085
LMArena Korean1407—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following14201102

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query14351113

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text14351128
LMArena Creative Writing14201091
LMArena Multi-Turn14451110
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen1.5-14B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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