Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Qwen3 8B
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3 8B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.0 to 28.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 64.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 56.8% for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 8B leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 8B leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 63.2% | 59.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 136.17 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 56.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 56.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | — |
| LMArena French | 1391 | — |
| LMArena German | 1353 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3 8B?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen3 8B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.