Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.3 to 17.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.728.6
Released2025-11-182024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked6715

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1482—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG58.1%7.8%
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%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles31%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96118.44
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—
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%2.5%
Omni-MATH55.5%29.4%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
LMArena Math1475—
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 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond92.6%35.5%
MMLU-Pro90.3%53.9%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%34.1%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
LMArena Expert1475—
MMLU—72.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1517—
LMArena Japanese1513—
LMArena Korean1449—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval87.7%74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1472—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench85.9%73.1%
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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