Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.6 27B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.2

Rank #117 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3.6 27B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 25.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 31% for Gemini 3 Pro and 22% for Qwen3.6 27B.
  • Qwen3.6 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.6 27B specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.842.2
Released2025-11-182026-04-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$3.60
Results tracked6711

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen3.6 27B: 39.1 (#163)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—37.3%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LMArena Coding1481—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
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), Qwen3.6 27B: 25.0 (#153)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
CritPt6.9%0.9%
Chess Puzzles31%22%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92146.5
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—78.1%
LMCA—34.5%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen3.6 27B: 48.5 (#62)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen3.6 27B: 52.4 (#63)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
GPQA Diamond92.6%85.9%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
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), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen3.6 27B: 50.3 (#181)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
EQ-Bench 4—1026
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3.6 27B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 42.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3.6 27B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.6 27B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 27B has 11.

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