Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 52.3 to 37.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 55.1% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 16.4% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 2.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 33K.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.333.4
Released2025-04-172024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M33K
Max output66K29K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$1
Results tracked5431

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%9%
Aider Polyglot55.1%16.4%
LMArena Coding14241276
WeirdML41.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
ALE-Bench661.88—
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14221251
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03119.49
ARC-AGI-22.5%—
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
ARC-AGI-133.3%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval2.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
DTBench76.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
LMCA27.5%—
ForecastBench60.6—
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math14151251
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%—
Omni-MATH38.5%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert14261221
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English14091205
LMArena Chinese14501222
LMArena Russian14151228
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14051223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query14191251
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text14171230
LMArena Creative Writing14001174
LMArena Multi-Turn14081222
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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