Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3 14B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 5.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 14B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 18.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 50% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 4% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 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.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3 14B specifications
Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.135.0
Released2026-05-192025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$9$1.40
Results tracked5412

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
SciCode53.1%31.6%
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 14B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
APEX-Agents27.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
CritPt13.1%0%
Chess Puzzles50%4%
DTBench94.7%64%
LMCA47.1%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55138.23
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond92.8%63.8%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1493—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
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), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1481—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1467—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3 14B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 5.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

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 Qwen3 14B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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