Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 16.1 to 12.7, and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs 2.9x less per output token ($3.50 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 43 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: which to pick
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has a coding score, 19.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for output tokens 2.9x cheaper ($3.50 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: expert or OTIS Mock AIME, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 43
- Gemini 2.5 Pro only
- 47
- Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 only
- 3
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads, 16.1 against 12.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads, 1.6 against 1.3.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads, 1167 against 1052.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro takes 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Gemini 2.5 Pro $0.0063, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $0.0022 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has the number, $0.64.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 2.5 Pro 19.1 from 3 benchmarks, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 19.6 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: data viz: Gemini 2.5 Pro 1222 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 950, 34.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 2.5 Pro $10.00 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $3.50 per million output tokens, 2.9x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 2.5 Pro takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 128K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Bars | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 4 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 3 | 1 | ||
| Math | 2 | 1 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 19 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 41 | 2 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 53.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1226 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| AA Coding Index | 33.3 | 22.1 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 54.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 0.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| SciCode | 46.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 26.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 32.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| GSO-Bench | 3.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| WeirdML | 54.0% | 41.0% | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1452 | 1424 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1459 | 1431 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1235 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1285 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 16.1 | 12.7 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.1 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.6 | 1.3 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 54.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| GDPval | 23.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 41.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $574 | -$11 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 29.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 84.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 22.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 85.3% | 80.1% | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| ARC-AGI | 41.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 9.0% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1455 | 1416 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1452 | 1463 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1453 | 1432 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1274 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1281 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 87.7 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 84.7% | 86.7% | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 24.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1450 | 1412 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1454 | 1435 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 63.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 50.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 86.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 40.4% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1480 | 1433 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1476 | 1456 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1480 | 1415 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1439 | 1413 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 61.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1167 | 1052 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1137 | 942 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1111 | 956 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1222 | 950 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1080 | 997 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1152 | 1032 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index190
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 41.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 73.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| IFBench | 48.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 69.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| DTBench | 82.4% | 80.3% | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMCA | 34.8% | 29.3% | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 75.0% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 83.8% | 82.4% | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text | 1458 | 1415 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1437 | 1386 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1454 | 1384 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Vision | 1263 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1458 | 1429 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1452 | 1397 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1507 | 1481 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: German | 1487 | 1408 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1461 | 1386 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1434 | 1375 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: French | 1473 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1474 | 1389 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1461 | 1401 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1479 | 1390 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1453 | 1406 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1449 | 1400 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1454 | 1388 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1441 | 1370 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1261 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1300 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1270 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1262 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1304 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1283 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1265 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Document | 1421 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Qwen | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | June 17, 2025 | July 25, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $0.45 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $3.50 |
| Coding index | 19.1 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.64 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for coding?
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has a coding score, 19.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for output tokens 2.9x cheaper ($3.50 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: expert or OTIS Mock AIME, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs $0.45 and $3.50. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 2.5 Pro only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Gemini 2.5 Pro, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 comparison based on?
43 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 2.5 Pro's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.