Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

37.6

Rank #201 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 51.3 to 26.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 86.7% for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.237.6
Released2024-05-142026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked4214

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.2 (#196)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
WeirdML24.9%34.5%
SciCode—35.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 22.1 (#134)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench—23%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 28.0 (#109)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
DTBench53.8%73.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36143.93
NYT Connections (extended)—41.6%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
Mystery Game Puzzles—22%
LMCA—29.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—44.4%
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 38.9 (#121)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20.4%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.3 (#68)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond47.3%84.8%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.2 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.

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