Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Qwen-14B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen-14B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 53.8 to 27.6.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Qwen-14B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.331.4
Released2025-04-172023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked5418

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Coding14241071
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
ALE-Bench661.88—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Qwen-14B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221027
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03113.03
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
DTBench76.5%—
LMCA27.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench60.6—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Math14151068
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
Omni-MATH38.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
LMArena Expert1426—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Non-English14091041
LMArena Chinese14501077
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Russian1415—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following14051031
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query14191028
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen-14B
LMArena Text14171051
LMArena Creative Writing14001028
LMArena Multi-Turn14081022
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Qwen-14B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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