Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen1.5-72B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 66.3 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.8% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.230.8
Released2026-05-192024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5422

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding14921165
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench911.02—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14881148
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math15041164
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond92.8%28.8%
LMArena Expert14951136
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14761135
LMArena Chinese15261186
LMArena French14901159
LMArena German14921084
LMArena Japanese14861061
LMArena Korean14511050
LMArena Russian14931104
LMArena Spanish14801110

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14671141

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14821157

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14821166
LMArena Creative Writing14701137
LMArena Multi-Turn14811160
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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