Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 38.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 55.3 to 51.7.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 37.8 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1412 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1324 | 1372 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.1% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1309 | 1365 |
| Omni-MATH | 37.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 58.1% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1305 | 1338 |
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1100 | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1323 | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1339 | 1357 |
| LMArena French | 1347 | 1398 |
| LMArena German | 1306 | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | 1328 | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1313 | 1360 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1305 | 1355 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 78.3% | — |
| IFEval | 82.4% | — |
Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1378 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1330 | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1307 | 1365 |
| WildBench | 79% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 38.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.