Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 44.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

44.9

Rank #67 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.1

Rank #36 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 52.2 to 31.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified: 57.6% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 76.7% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
  • Qwen3.6 Max Preview is cheaper at $1.30 / $7.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.951.1
Released2025-03-252026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$1.30
Output $ / M tokens$10$7.80
Results tracked7829

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
SWE-bench Verified57.6%76.7%
LMArena WebDev12271482
LMArena Coding14521472
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2573.644,254
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#85), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
SimpleBench62.4%63%
Chess Puzzles20%20%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551457
DTBench82.4%87.2%
LMCA34.8%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32149.27
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%91.1%
LMArena Math14501465
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%4.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond85.3%87.4%
LMArena Expert14521476
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—52%
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English14521436
LMArena Chinese15071487
LMArena French14731449
LMArena Russian14601444
LMArena Spanish14731452
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1462—
LMArena Korean1435—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following14361437
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query14491457
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text14581447
LMArena Creative Writing14531435
LMArena Multi-Turn14531456
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 44.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is cheaper. It lists at $1.30 per million input tokens and $7.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 42.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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