Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3 8B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.9 to 14.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 56.1% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.933.7
Released2024-10-032025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.18
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked2111

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%
LMArena Coding1218—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
DTBench50%59.7%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LMArena Hard Prompts1209—
LMCA—8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.17

Math Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%56.1%
LMArena Math1207—

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond33%56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
LMArena Expert1185—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English1215—
LMArena Chinese1231—
LMArena French1234—
LMArena German1206—
LMArena Japanese1150—
LMArena Korean1140—
LMArena Russian1236—
LMArena Spanish1212—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BQwen3 8B
LMArena Text1226—
LMArena Creative Writing1218—
LMArena Multi-Turn1185—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Qwen3 8B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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