Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

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

29.4

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 Flash leads 70.1 to 20.0.
  • Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 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 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index59.829.4
Released2026-08-132024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$8.40
Results tracked446

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1593—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
LMArena Coding1499—
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
OSWorld—5%
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1497—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.72—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1511—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision13141107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
Furniture Assembly26.7%—
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1485—
LMArena Chinese1553—
LMArena French1512—
LMArena German1485—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1486—
LMArena Russian1519—
LMArena Spanish1507—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1486—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1493—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1487—
LMArena Creative Writing1490—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LMArena Multi-Turn1495—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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