# Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

> Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-flash-preview-vs-qwen2-5-32b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 51.4 to 15.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
- Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 52.3 | 29.7 |
| Rank | 33 | 291 |
| Context | 1.05M | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.50 | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | $3 | $2.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.5 (#35)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 75.4% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 75.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1439 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 72.7% | — |
| GSO | 9.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 61.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45% |
| LMArena Coding | 1460 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,367 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.6 (#27)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 64.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 82.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 27.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 76.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91.2% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 49.8% | — |
| BALROG | 48.1% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 10% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1198 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 3,635 | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#35)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 40% | 0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 151.83 | 128.52 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 33.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 61.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 83.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1465 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 26% | — |
| DTBench | 89.1% | — |
| LMCA | 43.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.5 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.4 (#42)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 95.6% | 7.4% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 51.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 17.1% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67.6% | — |
| ProofBench | 15% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1472 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 56.1% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 35.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#30)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.4% | 46.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 66.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1461 | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.3 (#15)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1285 | — |
| GeoBench | 88% | — |
| VPCT | 72.6% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 0% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1413 | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.9 (#26)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1458 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1510 | — |
| LMArena French | 1478 | — |
| LMArena German | 1497 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1488 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1443 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1480 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1470 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.8 (#52)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1437 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#63)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1452 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.6 (#44)
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1466 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1457 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 32B Instruct lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

### Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.5 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.