Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen Plus

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen Plus in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 27.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 17.8% for Qwen Plus.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen Plus specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.837.1
Released2025-11-182024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked6720

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
LMArena Coding14811328
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%63.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801317
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—81.1%
LMCA—24%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%17.8%
LMArena Math14761326
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%1.7%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
MATH Level 5—65.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
GPQA Diamond92.6%48.1%
LMArena Expert14751328
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English14741310
LMArena Chinese15231347
LMArena Japanese15101251
LMArena Russian14931323
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14581303
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query14711324
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen Plus
LMArena Text14791326
LMArena Creative Writing14821293
LMArena Multi-Turn14841336
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen Plus?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen Plus share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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