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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3 Coder Plus

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Qwen3 Coder Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen3 Coder Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $5 for Qwen3 Coder Plus.
  • Qwen3 Coder Plus has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.1—
Released2026-07-212025-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$1
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$5
Results tracked461

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
ALE-Bench715.52456.5
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

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

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

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

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
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 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Qwen3 Coder Plus: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Plus
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3 Coder Plus?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Qwen3 Coder Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3 Coder Plus?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder Plus lists at $1 and $5.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3 Coder Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Plus has 1.

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