Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen2.5-Max

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 25.6.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.140.7
Released2026-07-212025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked4627

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding14911359
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts14851360
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25132.53
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
LMCA44.9%—
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math15051369
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Expert14881337
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Confabulations—21.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English14691352
LMArena Chinese15311382
LMArena French15041396
LMArena German14781350
LMArena Japanese14761300
LMArena Korean14311304
LMArena Russian14871353
LMArena Spanish14751377

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following14661335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query14741358

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text14791367
LMArena Creative Writing14651339
LMArena Multi-Turn14811364
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen2.5-Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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