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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen Max

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.4

Rank #226 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen Max in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 35.5 to 21.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 47.2% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 66.7% for Qwen Max.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.60 / $6.40 for Qwen Max.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.434.4
Released2025-06-172024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M33K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$1.60
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$6.40
Results tracked3323

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Coding13731288
Aider Polyglot—21.8%
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Qwen Max: 24.1 (#154)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts13771270
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Qwen Max: 21.0 (#272)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Math13731275
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—16.1%
Omni-MATH48%—
MATH Level 5—67.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#222)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Expert13731248
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Qwen Max: 42.0 (#197)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Non-English13691263
LMArena Chinese14041254
LMArena French13881329
LMArena German13901254
LMArena Japanese13591205
LMArena Korean13581141
LMArena Russian13731274
LMArena Spanish13961290

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Qwen Max: 66.7 (#203)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following13661262
IFEval81%—

Long Context Qwen Max leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#175)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query13731289

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Qwen Max: 48.0 (#200)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteQwen Max
LMArena Text13791282
LMArena Creative Writing13661248
LMArena Multi-Turn13671277
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Qwen Max?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen Max?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen Max lists at $1.60 and $6.40.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen Max better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Qwen Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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