Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 38.0 to 14.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.939.8
Released2024-10-032024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2136

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding12181333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091325
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
DTBench50%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%59.2%
LMArena Math12071359
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond33%65.3%
LMArena Expert11851324
Confabulations—15.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English12151305
LMArena Chinese12311378
LMArena French12341336
LMArena German12061313
LMArena Japanese11501262
LMArena Korean11401279
LMArena Russian12361297
LMArena Spanish12121354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following11991297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query12191308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwQ-32B
LMArena Text12261329
LMArena Creative Writing12181288
LMArena Multi-Turn11851314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.5 vs 35.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and QwQ-32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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