Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen1.5-72B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.6% for Gemini 3 Pro and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.830.8
Released2025-11-182024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6722

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding14811165
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14801148
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math14761164
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond92.6%28.8%
LMArena Expert14751136
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14741135
LMArena Chinese15231186
LMArena French14921159
LMArena German15151084
LMArena Japanese15101061
LMArena Korean14481050
LMArena Russian14931104
LMArena Spanish14701110

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14581141
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14711157
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14791166
LMArena Creative Writing14821137
LMArena Multi-Turn14841160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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