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Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 37.6 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 24.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 41.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.238.1
Released2024-05-142025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked4225

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
WeirdML24.9%41.2%
LMArena Coding12611412
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12571372
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math12691365
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert12331338
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English12781346
LMArena Chinese12951357
LMArena French12581398
LMArena German12621325
LMArena Japanese12521310
LMArena Korean12211305
LMArena Russian12881366
LMArena Spanish12431360

Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12581355
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12841378

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text12871357
LMArena Creative Writing12851333
LMArena Multi-Turn12531365
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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