Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3-4B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-4B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 33.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 52.3% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3-4B specifications
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.831.5
Released2026-07-212025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked386

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
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), Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles22%4%
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 Qwen3-4B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%52.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1431—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond83.3%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1430—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
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), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1436—
LMArena Creative Writing1419—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen3-4B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3-4B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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