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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3.5 27B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

41.9

Rank #127 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3.5 27B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 27B leads 38.8 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 60.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 47.9% for Qwen3.5 27B.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.30 input and $2.50 output per million tokens.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3.5 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.541.9
Released2026-07-212026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2.40
Results tracked3928

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.9 (#168)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena WebDev14401358
WeirdML39%39.5%
LMArena Coding14531427
ALE-Bench765.27349.45
SciCode41.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Qwen3.5 27B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—
Vending-Bench 2—201.98

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Qwen3.5 27B: 27.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%47.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411414
DTBench83.5%82.4%
LMCA37.6%34%
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Thematic Generalization—45.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Qwen3.5 27B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.8 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Math14331429
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.0 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Expert14351428
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.1%

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Qwen3.5 27B: 39.4 (#59)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Vision12681241

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Qwen3.5 27B: 50.8 (#115)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Non-English14271390
LMArena Chinese14691478
LMArena French14511410
LMArena German14541393
LMArena Japanese14271345
LMArena Korean14071358
LMArena Russian14431390
LMArena Spanish14421407

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Qwen3.5 27B: 73.5 (#119)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Instruction Following14201393

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Qwen3.5 27B: 43.1 (#106)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Longer Query14351413

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Qwen3.5 27B: 59.3 (#111)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Text14351409
LMArena Creative Writing14201362
LMArena Multi-Turn14451410
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen3.5 27B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.5 vs 41.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3.5 27B?

Qwen3.5 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3.5 27B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 38.9 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 27B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 27B has 28.

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