# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen Max

> Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-qwen-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen Max in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen Max leads 30.3 to 26.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 56.1% for Qwen Max.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 34.7 |
| Rank | 246 | 230 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Output $/M | — | $6.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1288 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Qwen Max: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1269 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | 1% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1248 |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Qwen Max: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1254 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1330 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1290 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1262 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1288 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1277 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen Max better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen Max share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.