Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 29.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 94.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 60.3% for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.6 Plus specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.847.5
Released2025-11-182026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked6737

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
SWE-bench Verified72.9%57.9%
LMArena WebDev14401461
LMArena Coding14811467
ALE-Bench1,177670.15
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—40.7%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 25,4785,115
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 (#31), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%60.3%
CritPt6.9%2.9%
Chess Puzzles31%17%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801449
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92147.65
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—81.9%
LMCA—33.1%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%93.3%
LMArena Math14761450
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%8.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond92.6%88.4%
LMArena Expert14751454
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

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

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English14741424
LMArena Chinese15231477
LMArena French14921455
LMArena German15151452
LMArena Japanese15101389
LMArena Korean14481379
LMArena Russian14931434
LMArena Spanish14701432

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14581425
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
CL-bench15.8%20.3%
LMArena Longer Query14711439

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text14791437
LMArena Creative Writing14821404
LMArena Multi-Turn14841438
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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