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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3 32B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3 32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.9 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 43% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 5% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B 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 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.138.8
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 tracked4626

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
SciCode52.7%35.4%
LMArena Coding14921358
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
Aider Polyglot—40%
LMArena WebDev1536—
WeirdML56.1%—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
CritPt10.6%0.3%
Chess Puzzles43%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14861335
DTBench95.5%67.5%
LMCA44.9%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36138.51
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 32B: 37.9 (#89)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%66.9%
LMArena Math15041399
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond94.1%65.7%
LMArena Expert14891362
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
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 32B: 45.8 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English14701317
LMArena Chinese15301357
LMArena German14781341
LMArena Russian14901311
LMArena French1501—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following14671305

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query14751327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 32B
LMArena Text14781340
LMArena Creative Writing14641297
LMArena Multi-Turn14811331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3 32B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B 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 32B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.6 versus 37.3 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 32B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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