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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen1.5-32B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.130.5
Released2026-07-212024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked4621

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding14911155
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851130
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math15051155
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond94.1%30.7%
LMArena Expert14881126
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English14691106
LMArena Chinese15311177
LMArena French15041101
LMArena German14781058
LMArena Japanese14761027
LMArena Korean14311008
LMArena Russian14871073
LMArena Spanish14751089

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14661116

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query14741146

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text14791137
LMArena Creative Writing14651083
LMArena Multi-Turn14811140
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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