Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 54.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.8 Max in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 73.2 to 49.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 20% for Gemini 3 Pro and 58% for Qwen3.8 Max.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.8 Max specifications
Gemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.856.8
Released2025-11-182026-08-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked6739

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
LMArena WebDev14401674
LMArena Coding14811502
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
DeepSWE—57.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
FrontierSWE—17.8%
SciCode—53.2%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3.8 Max leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
τ²-bench Banking18%55.1%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
APEX-Agents—63.3%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
GDP.pdf—23.2%
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%88.3%
CritPt6.9%20%
Chess Puzzles31%40%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801496
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92156.41
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—38%
DTBench—92%
LMCA—46.2%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Qwen3.8 Max leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
GPQA Diamond92.6%92.7%
LMArena Expert14751507
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—47.3%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision13051314
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
Furniture Assembly—20%
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English14741472
LMArena Chinese15231538
LMArena French14921503
LMArena German15151483
LMArena Japanese15101467
LMArena Korean14481461
LMArena Russian14931481
LMArena Spanish14701492

Instruction Following Qwen3.8 Max leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14581479
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Qwen3.8 Max leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query14711489
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text14791483
LMArena Creative Writing14821479
LMArena Multi-Turn14841489
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 54.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3.8 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 51.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen3.8 Max share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 39.

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