Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#246); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads 37.7 to 34.4.
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 38.7 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: 37.7 (#191)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | 39.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | 52.2% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 77.9% | 79.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#246); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has 3.