Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B has enough public results to be ranked (#91); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 15.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 96% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 11% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and Qwen3 235B-A22B specifications
Gemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.343.5
Released2026-02-122025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked349

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML—41%
LMArena Coding—1445

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
ARC-AGI-284.6%1.3%
ARC-AGI-196%11%
CritPt25.7%0%
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1433
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—80.3%
LMCA—29.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.85
ForecastBench—59.7

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH—71.8%
LMArena Math—1432
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond—80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
LMArena Expert—1463

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English—1409
LMArena Chinese—1481
LMArena French—1445
LMArena German—1433
LMArena Japanese—1399
LMArena Korean—1391
LMArena Russian—1411
LMArena Spanish—1430

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
IFEval—83.5%
LMArena Instruction Following—1408

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
Fiction.LiveBench—75%
LMArena Longer Query—1426

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text—1419
LMArena Creative Writing—1384
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1432

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B has enough public results to be ranked (#91); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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