Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 29.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 61.7% for Qwen3.5-9B.
- Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-15 | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 45 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137), Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332), Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 59% | 71.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | 139.45 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | — |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
Math Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260), Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | 61.7% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | 79% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | — |
| LMArena French | 1301 | — |
| LMArena German | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1310 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | — |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?
Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Qwen3.5-9B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.