Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 leads Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 12.0 to 10.4, and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs 1.9x less per output token ($0.40 vs $0.75 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 14 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Replace Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle

Coding: No data
Overall: No data
Output $/M: $0.40

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Qwen

Coding: No data
Overall: No data
Output $/M: $0.75

vs boards won of 14 shared

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for output tokens 1.9x cheaper ($0.40 vs $0.75 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens).

Model AGemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogleNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task Model BQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507QwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task

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Shared results: 14
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite only: 16
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 only: 10
Like-for-like categories: 7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 leads, 12.0 against 10.4.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has a GPQA Diamond result, 70.2%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has a AIME result, 42.1%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has a MMLU Pro result, 79.1%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1058.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite $0.0003, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 $0.0005 per turn.
List prices

At a glance

Coding index: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite not benchmarked, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 not benchmarked.
Widest category: Math, 37.7 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap: AA Math Index: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 53.3 against Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 91.0, 37.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite $0.40 against Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 $0.75 per million output tokens, 1.9x apart.
Context window: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 262K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
Category	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Bars	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Ties
Coding	0		2
Intelligence	0		1
Agentic work	0		2
Reasoning	0		2
Math	0		2
Knowledge	0		1
General	0		4
All shared boards	0		14

CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02

Coding benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)	71.4%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)	59.3%	78.8%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
SciCode	Not measured	41.4%	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)	4.5%	15.2%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
WeirdML	Not measured	38.7%	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here

IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01

Intelligence benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
AA Intelligence Index	10.4	12.0	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Epoch Capabilities Index	133.8	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured

Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02

Agentic work benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
τ²-Bench Telecom	19.0%	53.2%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)	36.9%	52.1%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here

ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02

Reasoning benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
GPQA Diamond	70.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)	75.4%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)	62.5%	79.0%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)	6.8%	15.9%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
ARC-AGI	Not measured	11.0%	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
ARC-AGI-2	Not measured	1.3%	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here

MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02

Math benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
AIME	42.1%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
MGSM (Vals AI)	89.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
AA Math Index	53.3	91.0	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)	53.3%	91.0%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here

KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01

Knowledge benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
MMLU Pro	79.1%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)	82.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)	57.6%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)	66.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)	57.6%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
MedQA (Vals AI)	88.9%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
MedCode (Vals AI)	34.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)	75.9%	84.3%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here

Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared

Web design benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
Design Arena: websites	Not measured	1058	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Design Arena: UI components	Not measured	962	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Design Arena: game dev	Not measured	951	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Design Arena: data viz	Not measured	1070	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Design Arena: 3D	Not measured	994	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Design Arena: all code categories	Not measured	1038	Only Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here

GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04

General benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
SAGE (Vals AI)	30.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)	75.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite measured
IFBench	49.9%	51.2%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)	55.7%	72.0%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
DTBench	62.8%	78.4%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
LMCA	18.1%	23.5%	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here

Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared

Image generation benchmarks for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Benchmark	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite$0.0003Fits in one request

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$0.0005Fits in one request

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite$0.0062Fits in one request

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$0.0097Fits in one request

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite$0.024Fits in one request

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$0.037Fits in one request

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Specification	Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Maker	Google	Qwen
Weights	No public weights listed	Open weights
Released	July 22, 2025	July 21, 2025
Context window	1.05M	262K
Input $/Mtok	$0.10	$0.15
Output $/Mtok	$0.40	$0.75
Coding index	Not benchmarked	Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it	0	0
Cost per solved task	Not computable	Not computable
Source	OpenRouter listing	OpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for output tokens 1.9x cheaper ($0.40 vs $0.75 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 costs $0.15 and $0.75. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 comparison based on?

14 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite or Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507: which to pick

Which one for your work

Coding

Intelligence

Reasoning

Math

Knowledge

Web design

Long documents

Everyday cost

At a glance

Benchmark by benchmark

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Agent loop

Specification differences

Questions

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