Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 24.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 70% for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.842.0
Released2025-11-182026-02-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked6728

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena WebDev14401254
LMArena Coding14811410
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—29.3%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
CritPt6.9%0.6%
Chess Puzzles31%10%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801400
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92142.52
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—80%
LMCA—29.5%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%56%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%70%
LMArena Math14761404
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond92.6%83.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%10.5%
LMArena Expert14751408
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English14741378
LMArena Chinese15231457
LMArena French14921412
LMArena German15151367
LMArena Japanese15101325
LMArena Korean14481356
LMArena Russian14931376
LMArena Spanish14701392

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following14581379
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query14711389
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text14791395
LMArena Creative Writing14821346
LMArena Multi-Turn14841390
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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