Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 15.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 91.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 11% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 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.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.143.5
Released2026-07-212025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2.80
Results tracked4649

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
SciCode52.7%42.4%
WeirdML56.1%41%
LMArena Coding14911445
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
LMArena WebDev1538—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
ARC-AGI-260.4%1.3%
ARC-AGI-191.2%11%
CritPt10.6%0%
Chess Puzzles43%12%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851433
Mystery Game Puzzles30%9%
DTBench95.5%80.3%
LMCA44.9%29.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25143.85
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ForecastBench—59.7

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%86.7%
LMArena Math15051432
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—71.8%
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond94.1%80.1%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%40.4%
LMArena Expert14881463
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen3 235B-A22B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English14691409
LMArena Chinese15311481
LMArena French15041445
LMArena German14781433
LMArena Japanese14761399
LMArena Korean14311391
LMArena Russian14871411
LMArena Spanish14751430

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following14661408
IFEval—83.5%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query14741426
Fiction.LiveBench—75%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text14791419
LMArena Creative Writing14651384
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16041366
LMArena Multi-Turn14811432
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
WildBench—86.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 44.3 in the Noometry coding category.

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 Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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