Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 43.0.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.728.6
Released2024-10-032024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked2115

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1218—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
DTBench50%47.7%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1210—
LMCA—6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.44

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1207—

Knowledge Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond33%35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1185—
MMLU—72.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1215—
LMArena Chinese1231—
LMArena French1233—
LMArena German1206—
LMArena Japanese1150—
LMArena Korean1140—
LMArena Russian1236—
LMArena Spanish1212—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1226—
LMArena Creative Writing1218—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1185—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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