Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.3 to 24.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.729.7
Released2025-11-182024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked677

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1482—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles31%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96128.52
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1481—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%7.4%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1475—
MATH Level 5—56.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond92.6%46.1%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1517—
LMArena Japanese1513—
LMArena Korean1449—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1472—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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