Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

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

29.4

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash leads 58.9 to 20.0.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.129.4
Released2026-07-212024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$8.40
Results tracked466

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
APEX-Agents46.9%—
OSWorld—5%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision12971107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

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-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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