# Gemini 3.7 Flash vs QwQ-32B

> Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-7-flash-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.1 to 22.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 47% for Gemini 3.7 Flash and 5% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 59.8 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 11 | 153 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.75 | — |
| Output $/M | $3.75 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1499 | 1333 |
| DeepSWE | 65.5% | — |
| FrontierCode | 43.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1593 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 20.3% | — |
| SciCode | 59.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 904.3 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 67.8% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 5% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 23.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 47% | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1497 | 1326 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 157.72 | 137.6 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 84.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 95.5% | — |
| CritPt | 14.3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 37% | — |
| DTBench | 96.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LMCA | 50.4% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 97.2% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1511 | 1359 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 71.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 36.6% | — |
| ProofBench | 58% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 94.8% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1508 | 1323 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.2% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1314 | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 26.7% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1485 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1553 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1512 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1485 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1506 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1486 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1519 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1507 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1486 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1493 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1487 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1490 | 1288 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1723 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1495 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than QwQ-32B?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.7 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.