Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3-4B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

32.9

Rank #240 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-4B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 28.5 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.931.5
Released2024-05-142025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked426

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1262—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.37—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond47.3%52.3%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1257—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1220—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1242—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3-4B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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