# Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen2.5-Max

> Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-5-flash-lite-vs-qwen2-5-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 41.3 to 33.3.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.4 | 40.1 |
| Rank | 208 | 142 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.10 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.40 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 41.2 (#118)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1373 | 1359 |
| WeirdML | 35.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 64.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 325.9 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89)
- Qwen2.5-Max: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 36.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 24.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1377 | 1360 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.93 | 132.54 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.5% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 51.4% |
| DTBench | 62.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 67.9% |
| LMCA | 18.1% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 62.3% |

## Math

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 34.3 (#162)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1369 |
| Omni-MATH | 48% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.4% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 34.8 (#181)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1373 | 1337 |
| MMLU-Pro | 53.7% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 21.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 3.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109)
- Qwen2.5-Max: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1198 | — |
| VPCT | 30% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 48.3 (#140)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1369 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1404 | 1382 |
| LMArena French | 1388 | 1396 |
| LMArena German | 1390 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1359 | 1299 |
| LMArena Korean | 1358 | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1396 | 1377 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 71.5 (#147)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1366 | 1335 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 75.3% |
| IFEval | 81% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 41.3 (#137)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1358 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 47.2% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130)
- Qwen2.5-Max: 55.6 (#141)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1379 | 1367 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1366 | 1339 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1367 | 1364 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 72.9% |
| WildBench | 81.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 56.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.2 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen2.5-Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.