Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3 32B in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 32B leads 37.7 to 28.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 37.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 54.9% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen3 32B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.139.2
Released2024-12-062025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked5426

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
Aider Polyglot38.2%40%
LMArena Coding13501358
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
SciCode—35.4%
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%54.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461334
DTBench63.2%67.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36138.51
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—17.3%
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%66.9%
LMArena Math13521399
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond64.1%65.7%
LMArena Expert13391362
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Qwen3 32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English13421317
LMArena Chinese13731357
LMArena German13531341
LMArena Russian13511311
LMArena French1391—
LMArena Japanese1294—
LMArena Korean1313—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following13361305
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%74.2%
LMArena Longer Query13441327

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text13541340
LMArena Creative Writing13401297
LMArena Multi-Turn13501331
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen3 32B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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