# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 38.8 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 43.7% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 63% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 43.0 |
| Rank | 246 | 102 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1440 |
| 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)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | 78.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1435 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1389 |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1334 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | 80.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1416 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.