Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3-4B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-4B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 18.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 50% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 4% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.131.5
Released2026-05-192025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked546

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-4B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
APEX-Agents27.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles50%4%
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%52.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1502—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond92.8%52.3%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1493—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1475—
LMArena Chinese1525—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1481—
LMArena Korean1453—
LMArena Russian1491—
LMArena Spanish1478—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1481—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1467—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3-4B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3-4B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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