Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen1.5-72B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.830.3
Released2026-07-212024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3822

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding14551166
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench765.27—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411148
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 Index145.12—

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math14311164
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: 50.0 (#66), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond83.3%28.8%
LMArena Expert14301136

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14281135
LMArena Chinese14671186
LMArena French14521158
LMArena German14541084
LMArena Japanese14281061
LMArena Korean14061049
LMArena Russian14431104
LMArena Spanish14401110

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14201142

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14351157

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14361166
LMArena Creative Writing14191137
LMArena Multi-Turn14451160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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