Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen2.5-Max

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 35.3.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5-Max specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.840.7
Released2025-11-182025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6727

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding14811359
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen2.5-Max: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
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 (#31), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts14801360
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92132.53
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
ForecastBench61.2—
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math14761369
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Expert14751337
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Confabulations—21.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen2.5-Max: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English14741352
LMArena Chinese15231382
LMArena French14921396
LMArena German15151350
LMArena Japanese15101300
LMArena Korean14481304
LMArena Russian14931353
LMArena Spanish14701377

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following14581335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query14711358
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text14791367
LMArena Creative Writing14821339
LMArena Multi-Turn14841364
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen2.5-Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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