Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen3 32B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3 32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 20.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 40% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 5% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index52.339.2
Released2025-12-172025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$3$2.80
Results tracked5926

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding14601358
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
Aider Polyglot—40%
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—35.4%
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
Chess Puzzles40%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651334
DTBench89.1%67.5%
LMCA43.1%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8138.51
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
CritPt—0.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%66.9%
LMArena Math14731399
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
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), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond89.4%65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%5.9%
LMArena Expert14621362
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English14581317
LMArena Chinese15111357
LMArena German14971341
LMArena Russian14801311
LMArena French1477—
LMArena Japanese1489—
LMArena Korean1443—
LMArena Spanish1469—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following14371305

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query14521327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 32B
LMArena Text14661340
LMArena Creative Writing14571297
LMArena Multi-Turn14711331

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Qwen3 32B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3 32B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 37.7 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 Qwen3 32B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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