Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

29.5

Rank #294 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2-72B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 21.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.829.5
Released2026-07-212024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3826

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
WeirdML39%11.3%
LMArena Coding14551196
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
GDP.pdf10%—
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411191
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12125.27
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Math14311235
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond83.3%40.8%
LMArena Expert14301171
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English14281176
LMArena Chinese14671240
LMArena French14521169
LMArena German14541151
LMArena Japanese14281111
LMArena Korean14061083
LMArena Russian14431169
LMArena Spanish14401168

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14201181

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query14351193

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Text14361203
LMArena Creative Writing14191181
LMArena Multi-Turn14451195
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen2-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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