Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 51.8 to 32.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 24.6% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 38.2% for Qwen3.6 Plus.
  • Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 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 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen3.6 Plus specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index45.047.5
Released2025-03-252026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$10$3
Results tracked7837

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
SWE-bench Verified57.6%57.9%
LMArena WebDev12271461
SciCode42.8%40.7%
LMArena Coding14521467
ALE-Bench785.52670.15
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 2573.645,115
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 Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
CritPt2%2.9%
Chess Puzzles20%17%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551449
DTBench82.4%81.9%
LMCA34.8%33.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32147.65
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
ARC-AGI-141%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%38.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%93.3%
LMArena Math14501450
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%8.3%
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond85.3%88.4%
LMArena Expert14521454
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English14511424
LMArena Chinese15071477
LMArena French14721455
LMArena German14871452
LMArena Japanese14611389
LMArena Korean14341379
LMArena Russian14611434
LMArena Spanish14731432

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14371425
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query14491439
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text14581437
LMArena Creative Writing14541404
LMArena Multi-Turn14531438
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 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

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

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

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

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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