# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 36.2 to 20.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 240 | 153 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | 44.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | 54.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1326 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | 58.3 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1359 |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1323 |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1257 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or QwQ-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (33.9 vs 34.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and QwQ-32B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.