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Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 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-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 25.5 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 13.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 55.4% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.138.1
Released2024-12-062025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked5425

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%55.4%
WeirdML25.8%41.2%
LMArena Coding13501412
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%49.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461372
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math13521365
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert13391338
GPQA Diamond64.1%—
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English13421346
LMArena Chinese13731357
LMArena French13911398
LMArena German13531325
LMArena Japanese12941310
LMArena Korean13131305
LMArena Russian13511366
LMArena Spanish13631360

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13361355
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13441378
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text13541357
LMArena Creative Writing13401333
LMArena Multi-Turn13501365
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-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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