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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 58.8 to 17.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper at $0.17 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index52.329.0
Released2025-12-172024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.17
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.70
Results tracked5915

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1460—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG48.1%7.8%
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles40%0%
DTBench89.1%47.7%
LMCA43.1%6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8118.51
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1465—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%2.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1473—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond89.4%35.5%
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1462—
MMLU—72.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1458—
LMArena Chinese1511—
LMArena French1477—
LMArena German1497—
LMArena Japanese1489—
LMArena Korean1443—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1469—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1452—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1466—
LMArena Creative Writing1457—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1471—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.17 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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