Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 25.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 64.3% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 27.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index52.338.1
Released2025-12-172025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$3$7.50
Results tracked5925

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%55.4%
LMArena WebDev14391275
GSO9.8%4.9%
WeirdML61.6%41.2%
LMArena Coding14601412
ALE-Bench1,367461.45
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench64.3%27.2%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14651372
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA43.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math14731365
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench15%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert14621338
GPQA Diamond89.4%—
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14581346
LMArena Chinese15111357
LMArena French14771398
LMArena German14971325
LMArena Japanese14891310
LMArena Korean14431305
LMArena Russian14801366
LMArena Spanish14691360

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14371355

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14521378

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14661357
LMArena Creative Writing14571333
LMArena Multi-Turn14711365

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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