Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 19.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 8.1% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.131.9
Released2024-12-062024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked5443

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
WeirdML25.8%16%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%45.8%
LMArena Coding13501292
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%55.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany11.4%5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13461271
DTBench63.2%62.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36129
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag—84.8%
LiveBench66.9%—
PIQA—82.6%
WinoGrande—82.3%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%8.1%
Omni-MATH45.9%33%
LMArena Math13521283
MATH Level 582.2%63.2%
LiveBench Math75.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond64.1%49.1%
MMLU-Pro73.7%63.1%
Confabulations12.4%19.1%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%42.6%
LMArena Expert13391245
MMLU79.7%85.3%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English13421252
LMArena Chinese13731272
LMArena French13911280
LMArena German13531234
LMArena Japanese12941180
LMArena Korean13131188
LMArena Russian13511264
LMArena Spanish13631256

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval84.1%80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following13361254
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13441282
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text13541269
LMArena Creative Writing13401221
WildBench80%80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn13501272
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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