# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

> Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-qwen2-5-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 13

## Summary

- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 25.8 to 12.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 57.2% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 35.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 29.0 |
| Rank | 261 | 320 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.17 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | 46.1% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 21% | 7.8% |
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 59% | 47.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | 118.51 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | 34.1% |
| MMLU | 86.9% | 72.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | — |
| LMArena French | 1302 | — |
| LMArena German | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1311 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.7% | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 81.3% | 73.1% |
| LMArena Text | 1319 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.