Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3 Max

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3 Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 22.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 30.1% for Qwen3 Max.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3 Max specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.843.7
Released2025-11-182025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked6733

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14811456
ALE-Bench1,177370.45
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen3 Max: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 25,47871.56
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 Max: 22.6 (#190)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%30.1%
Chess Puzzles31%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801448
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92142.38
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LMCA—28.3%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond92.6%72.6%
LMArena Expert14751455
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen3 Max: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14741429
LMArena Chinese15231478
LMArena French14921449
LMArena German15151463
LMArena Japanese15101397
LMArena Korean14481399
LMArena Russian14931428
LMArena Spanish14701462

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14581419
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
CL-bench15.8%14.5%
LMArena Longer Query14711438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3 Max
LMArena Text14791439
LMArena Creative Writing14821402
LMArena Multi-Turn14841446
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3 Max?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 43.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3 Max share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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