Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-30B-A3B costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.0 to 22.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 47% for Gemini 3.7 Flash and 8% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 41K.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index59.838.9
Released2026-08-132025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M41K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.12
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.50
Results tracked4432

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
SciCode59.8%33.3%
LMArena Coding14971416
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1592—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
WeirdML—29.8%
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
CritPt14.3%0.3%
Chess Puzzles47%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14941398
DTBench96.8%69.3%
LMCA50.4%22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index157.27139.63
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%70.3%
LMArena Math15071394
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
ProofBench58%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond94.8%70.1%
LMArena Expert15081396
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
Confabulations—12.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English14841372
LMArena Chinese15481433
LMArena French15051418
LMArena German14981380
LMArena Japanese15121337
LMArena Korean14831331
LMArena Russian15161370
LMArena Spanish15031404

Instruction Following Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following14831363

Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query14921379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text14861384
LMArena Creative Writing14901317
LMArena Multi-Turn14891378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-30B-A3B costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.2 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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