Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Qwen3 32B

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google

56.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3 32B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.7 to 20.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 55% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 5% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index56.739.2
Released2026-02-192025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$12$2.80
Results tracked7126

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
SciCode58.9%35.4%
LMArena Coding14841358
SWE-bench Verified75.6%—
DeepSWE11.7%—
Aider Polyglot—40%
LMArena WebDev1447—
GSO22.6%—
WeirdML72.1%—
MirrorCode8.9%—
ALE-Bench1,161—
AlgoTune2.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents35.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
τ²-bench Banking26%—
DeepResearch Bench47.8%—
PostTrainBench22%—
BALROG57%—
ExploitBench26.1%—
GBAEval0.8%—
GDP.pdf17%—
LMArena Search1211—
METR Time Horizons77%—
Vending-Bench 23,774—

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
CritPt17.7%0.3%
Chess Puzzles55%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851334
DTBench97.1%67.5%
LMCA53.8%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.77138.51
ARC-AGI-277.1%—
SimpleBench79.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198%—
EnigmaEval36.8%—
Thematic Generalization79.4%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%66.9%
LMArena Math14851399
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)59.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions86.5%—
ProofBench26%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)36.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)16.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond94.4%65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.4%5.9%
LMArena Expert14851362
Humanity's Last Exam46.4%—
SimpleQA Verified73.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1296—
Blueprint-Bench 226.5%—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English14771317
LMArena Chinese15291357
LMArena German14911341
LMArena Russian14981311
LMArena French1487—
LMArena Japanese1493—
LMArena Korean1455—
LMArena Spanish1479—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following14661305

Long Context Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query14831327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%
CL-bench20.8%—
CL-bench Life16.9%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Text14811340
LMArena Creative Writing14821297
LMArena Multi-Turn14881331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—
EQ-Bench 41142—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better than Qwen3 32B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview lists at $2 and $12.

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Qwen3 32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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