Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 40.8 to 15.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 51.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2026-04-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.80 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | 1472 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | 63% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1457 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 87.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 149.27 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1351 | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | 23.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 87.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1340 | 1476 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1436 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1487 |
| LMArena French | 1390 | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1444 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1452 |
| LMArena German | 1354 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1314 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1437 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1345 | 1457 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1456 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.