Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 9 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3 32B leads 32.6 to 17.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Qwen3 32B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.139.2
Released2024-02-152025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked4526

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Coding12941358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%
WeirdML22.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Hard Prompts12961334
DTBench59%67.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73138.51
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LMCA—17.3%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
ForecastBench58.4—

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%66.9%
LMArena Math13151399
Omni-MATH36.4%—
MATH Level 570.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond57.2%65.7%
LMArena Expert12791362
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations13.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Qwen3 32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English13121317
LMArena Chinese13311357
LMArena German12861341
LMArena Russian13201311
LMArena French1302—
LMArena Japanese1292—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Spanish1311—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following12971305
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query13081327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text13191340
LMArena Creative Writing13331297
LMArena Multi-Turn12961331
WildBench81.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Qwen3 32B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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