Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 21.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 69.9% for Gemini 3 Pro and 11.3% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2-72B specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.830.0
Released2025-11-182024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6726

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
WeirdML69.9%11.3%
LMArena Coding14811196
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
METR Time Horizons71%29.9%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14801191
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92125.28
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Math14761235
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond92.6%40.8%
LMArena Expert14751171
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen2-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English14741176
LMArena Chinese15231240
LMArena French14921170
LMArena German15151151
LMArena Japanese15101111
LMArena Korean14481083
LMArena Russian14931169
LMArena Spanish14701169

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14581181
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query14711192
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Text14791203
LMArena Creative Writing14821181
LMArena Multi-Turn14841196
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2-72B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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