Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3 8B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 8B costs 2.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Google

41.8

Rank #113 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B

Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 8B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 50.0 to 36.1.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 37.6% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 8.8% for Qwen3 8B.
Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 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 131K.
Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 8B specifications
	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
Provider	Google	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	41.8	33.3
Released	2026-07-21	2025-04
Weights	Proprietary	Open
Context window	1.05M	131K
Max output	66K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.30	$0.18
Output $ / M tokens	$2.50	$0.70
Results tracked	38	11

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.1 (#96), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
SciCode	41.3%	22.6%
LMArena WebDev	1440	—
WeirdML	39%	—
LMArena Coding	1455	—
ALE-Bench	765.27	—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 28.6 (#82), Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	42.6%
GDP.pdf	10%	—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#95), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
CritPt	0%	0%
Chess Puzzles	22%	5%
DTBench	83.5%	59.7%
LMCA	37.6%	8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index	145.12	136.17
ARC-AGI-2	10.3%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	60.4%	—
ARC-AGI-1	53.5%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1441	—
Mystery Game Puzzles	19%	—

Math Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#245), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	71.1%	56.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	26%	—
FrontierMath Tier 4	0%	—
ProofBench	13%	—
LMArena Math	1431	—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.0 (#66), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond	83.3%	56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	4.8%
LMArena Expert	1430	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 40.3 (#38), Qwen3 8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Vision	1266	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.8 (#59), Qwen3 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English	1428	—
LMArena Chinese	1467	—
LMArena French	1452	—
LMArena German	1454	—
LMArena Japanese	1428	—
LMArena Korean	1406	—
LMArena Russian	1443	—
LMArena Spanish	1440	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 75.0 (#77), Qwen3 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following	1420	—

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.8 (#80), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	62.1%
LMArena Longer Query	1435	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.4 (#55), Qwen3 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Text	1436	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1419	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1559	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1445	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen3 8B?

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 8B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.