Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.9

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.8 to 20.7.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper at $1.50 / $9 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.229.9
Released2026-05-192024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$9$8.40
Results tracked546

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
APEX-Agents27.5%—
OSWorld—5%
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
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 Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1504—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1495—

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision13101107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1476—
LMArena Chinese1526—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1492—
LMArena Japanese1486—
LMArena Korean1451—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1480—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $9 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

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-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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