Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.5 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #100 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 30.1.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 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-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.142.5
Released2026-05-192025-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K33K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$9$2
Results tracked5425

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding14921441
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14881428
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math15021440
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
Omni-MATH—46.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert14931416
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14751407
LMArena Chinese15251461
LMArena French14901415
LMArena German15001416
LMArena Japanese14811398
LMArena Korean14531366
LMArena Russian14911403
LMArena Spanish14781436

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14661388
IFEval—81%

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14811403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text14811417
LMArena Creative Writing14671333
LMArena Multi-Turn14821415
WildBench—80.7%
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs 3.9× 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-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 41.9 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-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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