Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.2

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 49.1 to 37.1.
  • Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.138.2
Released2026-05-192024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$9$1.40
Results tracked543

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: 37.1 (#187)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—39.8%
LMArena Coding1492—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.2%
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1502—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1493—
MMLU—79.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1475—
LMArena Chinese1525—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1481—
LMArena Korean1453—
LMArena Russian1491—
LMArena Spanish1478—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1481—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5 14B Instruct
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1467—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 37.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has 3.

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