Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5-Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.8 vs 42.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 36.3 to 25.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 84.4% for Qwen3.5-Flash.
  • Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 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 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.842.3
Released2026-07-212026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.40
Results tracked3832

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.9 (#234)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena WebDev14401243
LMArena Coding14551412
ALE-Bench765.27221.8
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
GDP.pdf10%—
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Qwen3.5-Flash: 32.9 (#63)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
Chess Puzzles22%21%
LMArena Hard Prompts14411404
Mystery Game Puzzles19%20%
DTBench83.5%82.9%
LMCA37.6%29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12143.98
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Qwen3.5-Flash: 36.3 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%84.4%
LMArena Math14311407
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
GPQA Diamond83.3%82.3%
LMArena Expert14301408
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.7 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English14281385
LMArena Chinese14671446
LMArena French14521412
LMArena German14541389
LMArena Japanese14281369
LMArena Korean14061344
LMArena Russian14431379
LMArena Spanish14401399

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.8 (#133)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14201374

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#119)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query14351392

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Qwen3.5-Flash: 58.2 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text14361397
LMArena Creative Writing14191343
LMArena Multi-Turn14451393
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5-Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.8 vs 42.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 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-Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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