Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 28.0 to 18.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GeoBench: 77% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 62% for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | 36% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1351 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1340 | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | 1107 |
| GeoBench | 77% | 62% |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | — |
| LMArena French | 1390 | — |
| LMArena German | 1354 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1345 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.