Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.8 to 25.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 62.6% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 41.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.238.1
Released2026-05-192025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$9$7.50
Results tracked5425

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena WebDev14991275
WeirdML62.6%41.2%
LMArena Coding14921412
ALE-Bench911.02461.45
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
SciCode53.1%—
GSO—4.9%
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14881372
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math15041365
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert14951338
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14761346
LMArena Chinese15261357
LMArena French14901398
LMArena German14921325
LMArena Japanese14861310
LMArena Korean14511305
LMArena Russian14931366
LMArena Spanish14801360

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14671355

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14821378

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14821357
LMArena Creative Writing14701333
LMArena Multi-Turn14811365
EQ-Bench 41087—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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