Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 39.1 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 60.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 51.7% for Qwen3.5 122B-A10B.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $3.20 for Qwen3.5 122B-A10B.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.542.1
Released2026-07-212026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$3.20
Results tracked3927

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena WebDev14401360
SciCode41.3%35.6%
LMArena Coding14531436
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%51.7%
CritPt0%0.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411421
Mystery Game Puzzles19%17%
DTBench83.5%84.3%
LMCA37.6%32.2%
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math14331432
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Expert14351432
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision12681245

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English14271400
LMArena Chinese14691462
LMArena French14511442
LMArena German14541426
LMArena Japanese14271367
LMArena Korean14071352
LMArena Russian14431400
LMArena Spanish14421424

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following14201399

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query14351410

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text14351417
LMArena Creative Writing14201368
LMArena Multi-Turn14451416
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 122B-A10B lists at $0.40 and $3.20.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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