Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3 Coder Plus

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Qwen3 Coder Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Qwen3 Coder Plus is cheaper at $1 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Qwen3 Coder Plus has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3 Coder Plus specifications
Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.2—
Released2026-05-192025-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$1
Output $ / M tokens$9$5
Results tracked541

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
ALE-Bench911.02456.5
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
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 Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1495—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Non-English1476—
LMArena Chinese1526—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1492—
LMArena Japanese1486—
LMArena Korean1451—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1480—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3 Coder Plus?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Qwen3 Coder Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3 Coder Plus?

Qwen3 Coder Plus is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3 Coder Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Plus has 1.

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