Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 Flash leads 70.0 to 32.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleQA Verified: 69.2% for Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index59.842.9
Released2026-08-132026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$2.40
Results tracked4415

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
ALE-Bench904.3621.92
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1592—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
LMArena Coding1497—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles47%22%
Mystery Game Puzzles37%17%
DTBench96.8%80.5%
LMCA50.4%36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index157.27146.78
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1494—

Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1507—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond94.8%84.8%
SimpleQA Verified69.2%25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1484—
LMArena Chinese1548—
LMArena French1505—
LMArena German1498—
LMArena Japanese1512—
LMArena Korean1483—
LMArena Russian1516—
LMArena Spanish1503—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1483—

Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1492—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1486—
LMArena Creative Writing1490—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LMArena Multi-Turn1489—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 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 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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