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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B costs 1.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #33 Confirmed

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

32.9

Rank #239 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 51.5 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 75.8% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 9% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index52.332.9
Released2025-12-172024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M33K
Max output66K29K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$3$1
Results tracked5931

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.5 (#35), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%9%
LMArena Coding14601276
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
ALE-Bench1,367—
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.6 (#27), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#35), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14651251
Epoch Capabilities Index151.83119.41
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench89.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
LMCA43.1%—
ForecastBench58.5—
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.4 (#42), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math14721251
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench15%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#30), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert14611221
GPQA Diamond89.4%—
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.3 (#15), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.9 (#26), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English14581205
LMArena Chinese15101222
LMArena Russian14801228
LMArena French1478—
LMArena German1497—
LMArena Japanese1488—
LMArena Korean1443—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.8 (#52), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14371223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#63), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query14521251

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.6 (#44), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text14661230
LMArena Creative Writing14571174
LMArena Multi-Turn14711222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B costs 1.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.5 versus 22.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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