Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Qwen2-72B

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

29.5

Rank #294 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 69.8 to 21.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.8% for Gemini 3.7 Flash and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index59.829.5
Released2026-08-132024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked4426

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19), Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Coding14991196
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1593—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench904.3—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18), Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
GDP.pdf23.8%—
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12), Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14971191
Epoch Capabilities Index157.72125.27
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18), Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Math15111235
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond94.8%40.8%
LMArena Expert15081171
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7), Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English14851176
LMArena Chinese15531240
LMArena French15121169
LMArena German14851151
LMArena Japanese15061111
LMArena Korean14861083
LMArena Russian15191169
LMArena Spanish15071168

Instruction Following Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12), Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14861181

Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query14931193

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19), Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen2-72B
LMArena Text14871203
LMArena Creative Writing14901181
LMArena Multi-Turn14951195
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Qwen2-72B?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.7 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen2-72B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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