Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.5-9B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 33.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5-9B costs 13× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3.5-9B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 23.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 61.7% for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.15 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 262K.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.133.8
Released2026-07-212026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.15
Results tracked4610

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
SciCode52.7%27.5%
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
CritPt10.6%0.3%
Chess Puzzles43%12%
DTBench95.5%71.2%
LMCA44.9%24.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25139.46
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%48.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%61.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond94.1%79%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Non-English1469—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1504—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1476—
LMArena Korean1431—
LMArena Russian1487—
LMArena Spanish1475—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 33.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5-9B costs 13× 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 Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3.5-9B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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