Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon 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 math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 19.3.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index56.531.9
Released2026-09-302024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked2143

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding15501292
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
APEX-Agents82.2%—
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15481271
CritPt27.1%—
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag—84.8%
PIQA—82.6%
WinoGrande—82.3%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Math15361283
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
ProofBench99%—
Omni-MATH—33%
MATH Level 5—63.2%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Expert15531245
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
MMLU—85.3%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English15231252
LMArena Chinese16101272
LMArena Russian15371264
LMArena Spanish14971256
LMArena French—1280
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15381254
IFEval—80.6%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15491282

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text15341269
LMArena Creative Writing15311221
LMArena Multi-Turn15571272
WildBench—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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