Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-Flash in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 43.2 to 16.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 84.4% for Qwen3.5-Flash.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.942.5
Released2024-10-032026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked2132

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding12181412
LMArena WebDev—1244
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts12091403
DTBench50%82.9%
Chess Puzzles—21%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
LMCA—29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.98

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%84.4%
LMArena Math12071407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
GPQA Diamond33%82.3%
LMArena Expert11851407
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English12151385
LMArena Chinese12311446
LMArena French12341412
LMArena German12061390
LMArena Japanese11501368
LMArena Korean11401344
LMArena Russian12361379
LMArena Spanish12121400

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following11991374

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query12191392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text12261397
LMArena Creative Writing12181343
LMArena Multi-Turn11851393

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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