Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Qwen1.5-32B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 36.4 to 13.5.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.330.5
Released2025-04-172024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked5421

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding14241155
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench661.88—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221130
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
DTBench76.5%—
LMCA27.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math14151155
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
Omni-MATH38.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Expert14261126
GPQA Diamond—30.7%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English14091106
LMArena Chinese14501177
LMArena French14331101
LMArena German14181058
LMArena Japanese14051027
LMArena Korean13851008
LMArena Russian14151073
LMArena Spanish14211089

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14051116
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query14191146
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text14171137
LMArena Creative Writing14001083
LMArena Multi-Turn14081140
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Qwen1.5-32B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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