Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 32.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 31% for Gemini 3 Pro and 22% for Qwen3.5 Plus.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.842.9
Released2025-11-182026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked6715

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
ALE-Bench1,177621.92
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LMArena Coding1481—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 25,4780.54
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%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles31%22%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92146.78
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—36.4%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%86.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%2.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1476—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond92.6%84.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%10.7%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench15.8%19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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