Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs QwQ-32B

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 37.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 83.1% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 20.9% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and QwQ-32B specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index45.039.8
Released2025-03-252024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7836

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot83.1%20.9%
LiveBench Coding85.9%72.2%
LMArena Coding14521333
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), QwQ-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
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 (#99), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles20%5%
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551325
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%65%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32137.6
ForecastBench61.358.3
LiveBench82.3%72%
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench82.4%—
LMCA34.8%—

Math QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%59.2%
LiveBench Math90.2%77.8%
LMArena Math14501359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
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), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond85.3%65.3%
Confabulations10.6%15.6%
LMArena Expert14521324
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), QwQ-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14511305
LMArena Chinese15071378
LMArena French14721336
LMArena German14871313
LMArena Japanese14611262
LMArena Korean14341279
LMArena Russian14611297
LMArena Spanish14731354

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following14371297
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query14491308

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Text14581329
LMArena Creative Writing14541288
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14211257
LMArena Multi-Turn14531314
LiveBench Language67.8%51.4%
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than QwQ-32B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and QwQ-32B share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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