Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 51.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.1

Rank #36 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 40.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 74.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.6 Max Preview specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.751.1
Released2025-11-182026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked6729

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
SWE-bench Verified72.9%76.7%
LMArena WebDev14391482
LMArena Coding14821472
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 25,4784,254
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%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
SimpleBench76.4%63%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%74.1%
Chess Puzzles31%20%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811457
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96149.27
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—87.2%
LMCA—42.5%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%91.1%
LMArena Math14751465
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%4.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond92.6%87.4%
LMArena Expert14751476
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—52%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English14741436
LMArena Chinese15221487
LMArena French14921449
LMArena Russian14931444
LMArena Spanish14681452
LMArena German1517—
LMArena Japanese1513—
LMArena Korean1449—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following14581437
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query14721457
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text14791447
LMArena Creative Writing14821435
LMArena Multi-Turn14841456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 51.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 48.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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