Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs QwQ-32B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and QwQ-32B specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.839.8
Released2025-11-182024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6736

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14811333
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), QwQ-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
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), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles31%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801325
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92137.6
ForecastBench61.258.3
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LiveBench—72%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%59.2%
LMArena Math14761359
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond92.6%65.3%
LMArena Expert14751324
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), QwQ-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14741305
LMArena Chinese15231378
LMArena French14921336
LMArena German15151313
LMArena Japanese15101262
LMArena Korean14481279
LMArena Russian14931297
LMArena Spanish14701354

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14581297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query14711308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwQ-32B
LMArena Text14791329
LMArena Creative Writing14821288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251257
LMArena Multi-Turn14841314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
WildBench85.9%—
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than QwQ-32B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and QwQ-32B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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