Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3-1.7B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 8.1% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.826.2
Released2026-07-212025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked384

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1455—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles22%0%
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%8.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1431—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond83.3%38%
LMArena Expert1430—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1428—
LMArena Chinese1467—
LMArena French1452—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1428—
LMArena Korean1406—
LMArena Russian1443—
LMArena Spanish1440—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1436—
LMArena Creative Writing1419—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3-1.7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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