Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen Max

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen Max in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen Max leads 30.3 to 26.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 56.1% for Qwen Max.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.234.7
Released2024-05-142024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—33K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.60
Output $ / M tokens—$6.40
Results tracked4223

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
LMArena Coding12611288
Aider Polyglot—21.8%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts12571269
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%16.1%
LMArena Math12691275
MATH Level 561.9%67.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%1%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Qwen Max leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
GPQA Diamond47.3%56.1%
LMArena Expert12331248
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
LMArena Non-English12781263
LMArena Chinese12951254
LMArena French12581330
LMArena German12621254
LMArena Japanese12521205
LMArena Korean12211142
LMArena Russian12881274
LMArena Spanish12431290

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following12581262
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
LMArena Longer Query12841288
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen Max
LMArena Text12871282
LMArena Creative Writing12851248
LMArena Multi-Turn12531277
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen Max better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen Max share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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