Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5 Plus 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 . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 47.9 to 25.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 86.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2.40 for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.842.3
Released2026-07-212026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2.40
Results tracked3815

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
ALE-Bench765.27621.92
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1455—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
GDP.pdf10%—
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles22%22%
Mystery Game Puzzles19%17%
DTBench83.5%80.5%
LMCA37.6%36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.12146.79
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1441—

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1431—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond83.3%84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1430—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision1266—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
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), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1435—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1436—
LMArena Creative Writing1419—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1445—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3.5 Plus 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 Plus?

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 Plus lists at $0.40 and $2.40.

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 Plus share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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