Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 24.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.129.7
Released2026-07-212024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2.80
Results tracked467

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1492—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles43%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36128.52
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%7.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond94.1%46.1%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1470—
LMArena Chinese1530—
LMArena French1501—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.6 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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