Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

38.6

Rank #171 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #259 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 37.1 to 18.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 83.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 63.2% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Gemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.631.5
Released2025-02-052024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked1443

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.4 (#182), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Aider Polyglot35.6%—
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
LiveBench Coding63.5%—
LMArena Coding—1293
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 21.6 (#194), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index135.06129.01
EnigmaEval0.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning60.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1271
DTBench—62.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis68%—
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag—84.8%
LiveBench65.1%—
PIQA—82.6%
WinoGrande—82.3%

Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.1 (#101), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
MATH Level 583.5%63.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
LiveBench Math71%—
LMArena Math—1283

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#156), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond65.7%49.1%
Confabulations18.4%19.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
LMArena Expert—1245
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
MMLU—85.3%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1252
LMArena Chinese—1272
LMArena French—1279
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1264
LMArena Spanish—1255

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.6 (#57), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following83.4%—
IFEval—80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following—1254

Long Context Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.1 (#287), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench41.7%—
LMArena Longer Query—1282

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#164), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text—1269
LMArena Creative Writing—1221
WildBench—80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1272
LiveBench Language44.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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