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Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 38.8 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 43.7% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 63% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.243.0
Released2024-05-142025-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked4225

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding12611440
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12571428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Omni-MATH30.4%46.7%
LMArena Math12691440
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
MMLU-Pro67.8%78.6%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%63%
LMArena Expert12331417
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English12781407
LMArena Chinese12951460
LMArena French12581413
LMArena German12621417
LMArena Japanese12521395
LMArena Korean12211364
LMArena Russian12881404
LMArena Spanish12431435

Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
IFEval83.1%81%
LMArena Instruction Following12581389

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12841403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text12871417
LMArena Creative Writing12851334
WildBench79.2%80.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn12531416

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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