Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-4B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-4B leads 33.0 to 16.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.931.9
Released2024-10-032025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked216

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
LMArena Coding1218—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1209—
DTBench50%—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
LMArena Math1207—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond33%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1185—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
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), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1226—
LMArena Creative Writing1218—
LMArena Multi-Turn1185—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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