Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 27.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 8.1% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.831.9
Released2025-11-182024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked6743

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
WeirdML69.9%16%
LMArena Coding14811292
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
BALROG58.1%16.2%
METR Time Horizons71%35.8%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
LMArena Search1207—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14801271
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92129
ForecastBench61.257.5
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
HellaSwag—84.8%
PIQA—82.6%
WinoGrande—82.3%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%8.1%
Omni-MATH55.5%33%
LMArena Math14761283
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
MATH Level 5—63.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond92.6%49.1%
MMLU-Pro90.3%63.1%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%42.6%
LMArena Expert14751245
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
Confabulations—19.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
MMLU—85.3%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14741252
LMArena Chinese15231272
LMArena French14921280
LMArena German15151234
LMArena Japanese15101180
LMArena Korean14481188
LMArena Russian14931264
LMArena Spanish14701256

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval87.7%80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following14581254

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14711282
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text14791269
LMArena Creative Writing14821221
WildBench85.9%80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn14841272
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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