Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 50.4 to 25.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 86.7% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Qwen3 235B-A22B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.143.5
Released2024-02-152025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked4549

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
WeirdML22.2%41%
LMArena Coding12941445
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
SciCode—42.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
ARC-AGI-20.8%1.3%
SimpleBench27.1%31%
LMArena Hard Prompts12961433
DTBench59%80.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73143.85
ForecastBench58.459.7
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
LMCA—29.3%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—

Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%86.7%
Omni-MATH36.4%71.8%
LMArena Math13151432
MATH Level 570.4%68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond57.2%80.1%
MMLU-Pro73.7%84.4%
Confabulations13.5%15.6%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%72.7%
LMArena Expert12791463
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Qwen3 235B-A22B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English13121409
LMArena Chinese13311481
LMArena French13021445
LMArena German12861433
LMArena Japanese12921399
LMArena Korean12981391
LMArena Russian13201411
LMArena Spanish13111430

Instruction Following Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
IFEval83.7%83.5%
LMArena Instruction Following12971408

Long Context Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query13081426
Fiction.LiveBench—75%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text13191419
LMArena Creative Writing13331384
WildBench81.3%86.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn12961432
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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