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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen-VL Max

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Qwen-VL Max Alibaba (Qwen)

35.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash leads 38.7 to 31.6.
  • Qwen-VL Max is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.135.3
Released2026-07-212024-01-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$3.20
Results tracked463

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Qwen-VL Max: 31.6 (#97)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Vision12971212
Video-MME—51.3%
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—
SpatialViz-Bench—32%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Non-English1470—
LMArena Chinese1530—
LMArena French1501—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen-VL Max
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen-VL Max?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen-VL Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-VL Max has 3.

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