Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#240); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.9—
Released2024-05-142024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked426

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1262—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Epoch Capabilities Index129.37112.93
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench53.8%—
ForecastBench53.9—
HellaSwag—76.8%
PIQA87.5%—
WinoGrande—72.9%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
GSM8K82.4%86.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
MMLU77.9%68%
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.9%
BoolQ85.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1257—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1220—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1242—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#240); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.

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