Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.8 27B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 46.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen3.8 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

46.0

Rank #68 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3.8 27B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 41.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 54.5% for Qwen3.8 27B.
  • Qwen3.8 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.8 27B specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.846.0
Released2025-11-182026-08-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.99
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked6731

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen3.8 27B: 50.5 (#44)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
LMArena WebDev14401593
LMArena Coding14811482
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—46.6%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen3.8 27B: 32.9 (#57)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
APEX-Agents—47.5%
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), Qwen3.8 27B: 41.0 (#54)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
ARC-AGI-231.1%42.4%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%54.5%
ARC-AGI-175%87.5%
CritPt6.9%5.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801460
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92149.38
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—88%
LMCA—41.4%
Surface Evolver Bench—45%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen3.8 27B: 37.1 (#161)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
ProofBench20%16%
LMArena Math14761456
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
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), Qwen3.8 27B: 41.6 (#109)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
LMArena Expert14751482
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen3.8 27B: 41.3 (#37)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
LMArena Vision13051271
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen3.8 27B: 53.7 (#60)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
LMArena Non-English14741430
LMArena Chinese15231504
LMArena French14921465
LMArena German15151438
LMArena Japanese15101384
LMArena Korean14481393
LMArena Russian14931415
LMArena Spanish14701448

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen3.8 27B: 75.8 (#53)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
LMArena Instruction Following14581439
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen3.8 27B: 44.3 (#70)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
LMArena Longer Query14711450
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen3.8 27B: 65.8 (#43)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 27B
LMArena Text14791441
LMArena Creative Writing14821384
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251671
LMArena Multi-Turn14841441
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3.8 27B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 46.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3.8 27B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 50.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.8 27B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 27B has 31.

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