Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.1 to 24.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.530.1
Released2026-07-212024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2.80
Results tracked397

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1453—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles22%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13128.52
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%7.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond83.3%46.1%
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1427—
LMArena Chinese1469—
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1427—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Russian1443—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 32B Instruct lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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