Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3.5-9B
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.9 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 26.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 61.7% for Qwen3.5-9B.
- Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| 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), Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 53.8% | 71.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | 139.45 |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 61.7% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 79% |
| 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), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3.5-9B?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.9 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?
Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3.5-9B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.