Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 1.7× 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 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 32.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleQA Verified: 66.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 25.4% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 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 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.142.9
Released2026-07-212026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2.40
Results tracked4615

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
ALE-Bench715.52621.92
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles43%22%
Mystery Game Puzzles30%17%
DTBench95.5%80.5%
LMCA44.9%36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25146.78
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond94.1%84.8%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

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

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
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 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 1.7× 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 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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