Noometry

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Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2-72B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2-72B leads 30.2 to 14.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.930.0
Released2024-10-032024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2126

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Coding12181196
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091191
DTBench50%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.28

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Math12071235
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Qwen2-72B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond33%40.8%
LMArena Expert11851171
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English12151176
LMArena Chinese12311240
LMArena French12341170
LMArena German12061151
LMArena Japanese11501111
LMArena Korean11401083
LMArena Russian12361169
LMArena Spanish12121169

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following11991181

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query12191192

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen2-72B
LMArena Text12261203
LMArena Creative Writing12181181
LMArena Multi-Turn11851196

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen2-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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