Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 66.3 to 21.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.8% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.230.0
Released2026-05-192024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5426

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
WeirdML62.6%11.3%
LMArena Coding14921196
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
APEX-Agents27.5%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
METR Time Horizons—29.9%
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14881191
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46125.28
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Math15041235
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond92.8%40.8%
LMArena Expert14951171
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English14761176
LMArena Chinese15261240
LMArena French14901170
LMArena German14921151
LMArena Japanese14861111
LMArena Korean14511083
LMArena Russian14931169
LMArena Spanish14801169

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14671181

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query14821192

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Text14821203
LMArena Creative Writing14701181
LMArena Multi-Turn14811196
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen2-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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