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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.9

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 41.1 to 33.5.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.529.9
Released2026-07-212024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$8.40
Results tracked396

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
APEX-Agents29.3%—
OSWorld—5%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision12681107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

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-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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