# Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

> Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-5-pro-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 54.1 to 32.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified: 57.6% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 76.7% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview is cheaper at $1.30 / $7.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 45.0 | 51.5 |
| Rank | 75 | 43 |
| Context | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | $1.30 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $7.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.6% | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1227 | 1482 |
| LMArena Coding | 1452 | 1471 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 53.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 83.1% | — |
| SciCode | 42.8% | — |
| GSO | 3.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 54% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 85.9% | — |
| CadEval | 64% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.52 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.51 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | 573.64 | 4,254 |
| Terminal-Bench | 32.6% | — |
| GDPval | 23.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 13.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| BALROG | 43.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 55.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | 63% |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1455 | 1457 |
| DTBench | 82.4% | 87.2% |
| LMCA | 34.8% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.32 | 149.24 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 41% | — |
| CritPt | 2% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 79.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.3 | — |
| LiveBench | 82.3% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84.7% | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1450 | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 14.1% | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | 4.2% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 24.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 41.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 90.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 95.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.3% | 87.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | 1478 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 21.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 10.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 74.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1263 | — |
| GeoBench | 86% | — |
| VPCT | 48% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1421 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 44.7% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1451 | 1437 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1507 | 1487 |
| LMArena French | 1472 | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | 1461 | 1445 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1454 |
| LMArena German | 1487 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1461 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1434 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1437 | 1438 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.6% | — |
| IFEval | 84% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1449 | 1457 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1458 | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1454 | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1453 | 1456 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1421 | — |
| WildBench | 85.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 67.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is cheaper. It lists at $1.30 per million input tokens and $7.80 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

### Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.