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Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 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 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 39.0 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.238.8
Released2024-05-142026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked4213

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
ALE-Bench—326.4
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
DTBench53.8%77.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
LMCA—31%
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%10.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond47.3%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
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 Flash: —

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

Multilingual Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
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 Flash: —

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

Long Context Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Qwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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