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gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 vs QwQ-32B ·Google DeepMind,Google vs Alibaba

gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 vs QwQ-32B — head-to-head comparison

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gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 — Google DeepMind,Google
Quality
#42 of 65
63based on 3 of 7 evaluations
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QwQ-32B — Alibaba
Quality
#29 of 65
69based on 3 of 7 evaluations
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Summary

On the Known Good Index, gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 scores 63 and QwQ-32B scores 69 — a 6-point lead for QwQ-32B. They share 9 published evaluations, with gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 ahead on 2 and QwQ-32B ahead on 7.

gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 is proprietary; QwQ-32B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted).

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricgemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21QwQ-32B
Known Good Index 63 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 69 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricgemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21QwQ-32B
Known Good Index 63 69
Reasoning Index 67 75
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 · marker = QwQ-32B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0), LiveBench (Apache-2.0)

GPQA Diamond57 / 65
Mock AIME 2024–2558 / 59
LiveBench67 / 72
LiveBench Coding53 / 72
LiveBench Data Analysis69 / 65
LiveBench Instruction Following82 / 82
LiveBench Language42 / 51
LiveBench Mathematics76 / 78
LiveBench Reasoning78 / 84

Right-hand figures read gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 / QwQ-32B. gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 leads on 2 of 9, QwQ-32B on 7.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricgemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21QwQ-32B
Text Arena 1,329
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,336
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →