Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen1.5-7B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

32.9

Rank #240 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #270 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.9 to 29.8.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.930.8
Released2024-05-142024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4213

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding12621107
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): 26.3 (#97), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12571066
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.37—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Qwen1.5-7B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math12691080
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert12331055
MMLU77.9%62.6%
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English12781058
LMArena Chinese12951140
LMArena Russian12881006
LMArena French1257—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1220—
LMArena Spanish1242—

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following12581058
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query12841090

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text12871084
LMArena Creative Writing12851035
LMArena Multi-Turn12531061
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen1.5-7B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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