Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

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

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 25.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 56.1% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 41.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Gemini 3.6 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 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.138.1
Released2026-07-212025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$7.50
Results tracked4625

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena WebDev15381275
WeirdML56.1%41.2%
LMArena Coding14911412
ALE-Bench715.52461.45
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
SciCode52.7%—
GSO—4.9%
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14851372
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math15051365
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert14881338
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14691346
LMArena Chinese15311357
LMArena French15041398
LMArena German14781325
LMArena Japanese14761310
LMArena Korean14311305
LMArena Russian14871366
LMArena Spanish14751360

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14661355

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14741378

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14791357
LMArena Creative Writing14651333
LMArena Multi-Turn14811365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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