Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen1.5-72B

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

44.9

Rank #67 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 55.8 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 85.3% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.930.3
Released2025-03-252024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7822

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding14521166
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#85), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14551148
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math14501164
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond85.3%28.8%
LMArena Expert14521136
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14521135
LMArena Chinese15071186
LMArena French14731158
LMArena German14871084
LMArena Japanese14621061
LMArena Korean14351049
LMArena Russian14601104
LMArena Spanish14731110

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14361142
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14491157
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14581166
LMArena Creative Writing14531137
LMArena Multi-Turn14531160
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.8 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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