Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 21.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.130.0
Released2026-07-212024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked4626

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
WeirdML56.1%11.3%
LMArena Coding14911196
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
GDP.pdf14%—
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851191
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25125.28
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Math15051235
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond94.1%40.8%
LMArena Expert14881171
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English14691176
LMArena Chinese15311240
LMArena French15041170
LMArena German14781151
LMArena Japanese14761111
LMArena Korean14311083
LMArena Russian14871169
LMArena Spanish14751169

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14661181

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query14741192

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Text14791203
LMArena Creative Writing14651181
LMArena Multi-Turn14811196
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen2-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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