Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3-1.7B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

32.9

Rank #240 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 26.2 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 38% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.926.2
Released2024-05-142025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked424

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1262—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.37—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%8.1%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond47.3%38%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
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), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3-1.7B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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