Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Updated October 21, 2026. 26 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 26 shared
Decision reading
Pick Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding: it scores 70.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 30.5 for Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct.
Pick Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct when output tokens cost 4.1x less.
Model AGemini 3.8 FlashGoogle70.5/1002 independent benchmarks$2.74 per solved taskModel BQwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructQwen30.5/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 26
- Gemini 3.8 Flash only
- 100
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct only
- 9
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 70.5 against 30.5.
2 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads, 40.9 against 6.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has a AA Agentic Index result, 40.2.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has a GPQA Diamond result, 94.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has a MMLU Pro result, 90.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has a Design Arena: websites result, 1301.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has a Vals Index result, 56.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 33K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.0029, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct $0.0012 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has the number, $2.74.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.8 Flash 70.5 from 2 benchmarks, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 30.5 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- General, 48.1 points apart on average over 11 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Text: Chinese: Gemini 3.8 Flash 1553 against Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 1222, 55.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.8 Flash $4.125 against Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct $1.00 per million output tokens, 4.1x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3.8 Flash takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 33K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Bars | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 5 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| General | 11 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 26 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 16.4% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 47.0% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LiveBench coding | 82.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1585 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| AA Coding Index | 76.3 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 19.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 78.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 1.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 56.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 81.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 40.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 18.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 58.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 29.5% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| SciCode | 56.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| FrontierCode | 41.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| FrontierSWE | 19.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| WeirdML | 84.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1269.7 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1508 | 1276 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1507 | 1261 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1577 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1616 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1593 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 40.9 | 6.7 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 157.4 | 119.5 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index25 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 40.2 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1238 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1244 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1236 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1078 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1273 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1178 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1052 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench research | 79.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench browser | 64.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 30.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 11.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 61.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 32.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 38.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 12.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 72.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 62.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 8.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vals Science Index | 35.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 18.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 4.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| APEX-Agents | 64.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 5.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,094 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 94.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 89.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 95.3% | 41.7% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.8% | 3.5% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 95.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Chess puzzles | 58.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1509 | 1251 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1526 | 1221 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1504 | 1269 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1345 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1351 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 68.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 22.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ProofBench | 48.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| GSM8K | Not measured | 93.0% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1532 | 1251 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1519 | 1243 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 90.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 87.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 65.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 48.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 63.5% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MMLU | Not measured | 79.1% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| AI2 Reasoning Challenge | Not measured | 70.5% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1523 | 1221 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1508 | 1187 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1497 | 1257 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1479 | 1224 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1301 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1318 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1305 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1269 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1295 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1304 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1295 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1264 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench design | 72.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index110
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 56.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 54.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 65.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 35.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 84.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 84.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| DTBench | 95.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMCA | 52.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 76.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Furniture assembly | 31.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| HellaSwag | Not measured | 83.0% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| WinoGrande | Not measured | 80.8% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text | 1499 | 1230 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1492 | 1223 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1488 | 1174 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision | 1315 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1498 | 1248 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1491 | 1205 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1553 | 1222 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: German | 1501 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1507 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1464 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1496 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1487 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1514 | 1228 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1497 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1503 | 1222 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1507 | 1251 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1494 | 1191 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1480 | 1150 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1318 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1416 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1333 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1321 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1299 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.0029Fits in one request
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$0.0012Fits in one request
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.054Fits in one request
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$0.036Exceeds the context window
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.206Fits in one request
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$0.142Exceeds the context window
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Qwen | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | September 2, 2026 | November 11, 2024 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 33K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.825 | $0.66 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.125 | $1.00 |
| Coding index | 70.5 | 30.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.74 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct for coding?
Pick Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding: it scores 70.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 30.5 for Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct. Pick Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct when output tokens cost 4.1x less.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?
Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.825 per million input tokens and $4.125 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs $0.66 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 3.8 Flash only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?
Gemini 3.8 Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct comparison based on?
26 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 3.8 Flash's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.