Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 17.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper at $0.17 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index45.029.0
Released2025-03-252024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.17
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.70
Results tracked7815

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
LMArena Coding1452—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG43.3%7.8%
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles20%0%
DTBench82.4%47.7%
LMCA34.8%6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32118.51
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1455—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%2.5%
Omni-MATH41.6%29.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
LMArena Math1450—
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: 56.0 (#46), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond85.3%35.5%
MMLU-Pro86.3%53.9%
GPQA (HELM)74.9%34.1%
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
LMArena Expert1452—
MMLU—72.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1451—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1461—
LMArena Korean1434—
LMArena Russian1461—
LMArena Spanish1473—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval84%74.1%
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1449—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench85.7%73.1%
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
LMArena Multi-Turn1453—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.17 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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