Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3 8B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 8B costs 4.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 16.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 56.1% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.133.7
Released2026-07-212025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.18
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.70
Results tracked4611

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
SciCode52.7%22.6%
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
CritPt10.6%0%
Chess Puzzles43%5%
DTBench95.5%59.7%
LMCA44.9%8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25136.17
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%56.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond94.1%56.8%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English1469—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1504—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1476—
LMArena Korean1431—
LMArena Russian1487—
LMArena Spanish1475—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 8B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3 8B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 8B costs 4.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3 8B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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