Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads 24.9 to 16.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 46.1% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.729.7
Released2024-10-032024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked217

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1218—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1210—
DTBench50%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52

Math Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%7.4%
LMArena Math1207—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond33%46.1%
LMArena Expert1185—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1215—
LMArena Chinese1231—
LMArena French1233—
LMArena German1206—
LMArena Japanese1150—
LMArena Korean1140—
LMArena Russian1236—
LMArena Spanish1212—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1226—
LMArena Creative Writing1218—
LMArena Multi-Turn1185—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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