Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3 14B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 14B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 38.6 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 63.8% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.535.5
Released2026-07-212025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$1.40
Results tracked3912

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
SciCode41.3%31.6%
LMArena WebDev1440—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1453—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 14B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
CritPt0%0%
Chess Puzzles22%4%
DTBench83.5%64%
LMCA37.6%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13138.23
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%66.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond83.3%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
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), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1435—
LMArena Creative Writing1420—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen3 14B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 37.3 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 Qwen3 14B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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