Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) Alibaba (Qwen)

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.1—
Released2026-07-212024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked466

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36112.93
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
HellaSwag—76.8%
WinoGrande—72.9%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—
GSM8K—86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1489—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.9%
MMLU—68%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
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-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.

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