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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs QwQ Plus

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

QwQ Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 1 category and QwQ Plus in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 36.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 65.4% for QwQ Plus.
  • QwQ Plus is cheaper at $0.80 / $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 131K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.137.9
Released2026-07-212025-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2.40
Results tracked461

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), QwQ Plus: 36.5

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
GPQA Diamond94.1%65.4%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Non-English1470—
LMArena Chinese1530—
LMArena French1501—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than QwQ Plus?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or QwQ Plus?

QwQ Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 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 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and QwQ Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and QwQ Plus has 1.

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