Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.9

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 2 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads 33.5 to 28.2.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.929.9
Released2024-10-032024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.80
Output $ / M tokens—$8.40
Results tracked216

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding1218—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
LMArena Hard Prompts1209—
DTBench50%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%—
LMArena Math1207—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond33%—
LMArena Expert1185—

Multimodal Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision10441107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1215—
LMArena Chinese1231—
LMArena French1234—
LMArena German1206—
LMArena Japanese1150—
LMArena Korean1140—
LMArena Russian1236—
LMArena Spanish1212—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1226—
LMArena Creative Writing1218—
LMArena Multi-Turn1185—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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