Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 38.0 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | 44.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | 54.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning QwQ-32B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | 58.3 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math QwQ-32B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1359 |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge QwQ-32B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1324 |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual QwQ-32B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1354 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than QwQ-32B?
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or QwQ-32B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 35.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and QwQ-32B share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.