# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

> Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 34.9 to 20.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 24.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 41.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 37.7 |
| Rank | 240 | 186 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | 41.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | 1413 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1372 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1364 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1337 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1345 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | 1257 | 1394 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1324 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1309 |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | 1307 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1367 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | 1360 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1356 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1379 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1356 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1365 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.2 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.