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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen-VL Max

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen-VL Max Alibaba (Qwen)

35.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-VL Max in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 45.7 to 31.6.
  • Qwen-VL Max is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.135.3
Released2026-05-192024-01-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$9$3.20
Results tracked543

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1502—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1493—

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Qwen-VL Max: 31.6 (#97)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Vision13111212
Video-MME—51.3%
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—
SpatialViz-Bench—32%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Non-English1475—
LMArena Chinese1525—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1481—
LMArena Korean1453—
LMArena Russian1491—
LMArena Spanish1478—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Longer Query1481—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1467—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen-VL Max?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen-VL Max?

Qwen-VL Max is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen-VL Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-VL Max has 3.

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