Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 20.8 to 15.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | 45% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | 52.3% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | 128.52 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 7.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | 56.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 46.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1257 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 32B 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 32B Instruct?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.