Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-30B-A3B costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.9 to 21.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 43% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 8% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.50 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 41K.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.138.5
Released2026-07-212025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M41K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.12
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.50
Results tracked4632

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
SciCode52.7%33.3%
WeirdML56.1%29.8%
LMArena Coding14921416
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
CritPt10.6%0.3%
Chess Puzzles43%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14861398
DTBench95.5%69.3%
LMCA44.9%22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36139.63
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%70.3%
LMArena Math15041394
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench36%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond94.1%70.1%
LMArena Expert14891395
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Confabulations—12.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English14701372
LMArena Chinese15301434
LMArena French15011419
LMArena German14781379
LMArena Japanese14771338
LMArena Korean14351333
LMArena Russian14901369
LMArena Spanish14771403

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following14671364

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query14751379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text14781384
LMArena Creative Writing14641318
LMArena Multi-Turn14811378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-30B-A3B costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.6 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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