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Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen3 32B

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3 32B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 20.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 61% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 5% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index61.839.2
Released2026-09-022025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2.80
Results tracked5026

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
SciCode56.6%35.4%
LMArena Coding15101358
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
Aider Polyglot—40%
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
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 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
CritPt18.3%0.3%
Chess Puzzles61%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081334
DTBench95.7%67.5%
LMCA52.9%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71138.51
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—

Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%66.9%
LMArena Math15281399
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench48%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond95.4%65.7%
LMArena Expert15241362
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1314—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English14911317
LMArena Chinese15541357
LMArena German14931341
LMArena Russian15151311
LMArena French1498—
LMArena Japanese1502—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Spanish1485—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following14901305

Long Context Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query15081327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Text14991340
LMArena Creative Writing14921297
LMArena Multi-Turn15011331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Qwen3 32B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.8 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.2 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.8 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Qwen3 32B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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