Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen3-1.7B

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.6

Rank #336 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.9% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 8.1% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index61.826.6
Released2026-09-022025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked504

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
LMArena Coding1510—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%
Remote Labor Index5.8%—
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles61%0%
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt18.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71—

Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%8.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench48%—
LMArena Math1528—

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond95.4%38%
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
LMArena Expert1524—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1314—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1491—
LMArena Chinese1554—
LMArena French1498—
LMArena German1493—
LMArena Japanese1502—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Russian1515—
LMArena Spanish1485—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1490—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1508—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1499—
LMArena Creative Writing1492—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—
LMArena Multi-Turn1501—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Qwen3-1.7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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