Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Qwen3-Coder-Next
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Google · Jul 2025
Ten cents per million input tokens with multimodal support — the price floor of the 2025 Gemini lineup.
Alibaba (Qwen) · Feb 2026
The 2026 open coding specialist: 70.6% SWE-bench Verified under Apache 2.0 from $0.11 per million input tokens.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is about 1.6x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Coder-Next. And Qwen3-Coder-Next is open-weights (Apache 2.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Qwen3-Coder-Next | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.1 | $0.11 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.4 | $0.8 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 262K |
| Max output | 66K | 66K |
| Open weights | no | yes (Apache 2.0) |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image, audio, video | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jan 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Released | Jul 2025 | Feb 2026 |
| Example monthly cost* | $1.60 | $2.30 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3-Coder-Next?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is about 1.6x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Coder-Next. And Qwen3-Coder-Next is open-weights (Apache 2.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3-Coder-Next?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.1/$0.4 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-Coder-Next costs $0.11/$0.8. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $1.60 versus $2.30.
- Which model is better for coding, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Qwen3-Coder-Next?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.