Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3.5-Flash
Updated October 21, 2026. 53 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash for coding: it scores 42.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 6.2 for Qwen3.5-Flash.
Pick Qwen3.5-Flash when output tokens cost 34.6x less, or when a solved task costs $0.40 against $1.21.
- Shared results
- 53
- Gemini 3.5 Flash only
- 57
- Qwen3.5-Flash only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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, four public coding benchmarks
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 42.8 against 6.2.
One benchmark behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a AA Intelligence Index result, 33.6.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads, 92.7% against 82.8%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Qwen3.5-Flash has a AIME result, 92.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads, 89.5% against 84.1%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a Design Arena: websites result, 1268.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.5-Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash $0.0060, Qwen3.5-Flash $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Qwen3.5-Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.21, Qwen3.5-Flash $0.40.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.5 Flash 42.8 from 1 benchmark, Qwen3.5-Flash 6.2 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Coding, 23.3 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- SimpleQA Verified: Gemini 3.5 Flash 66.2% against Qwen3.5-Flash 20.3%, 45.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.5 Flash $9.00 against Qwen3.5-Flash $0.26 per million output tokens, 34.6x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3.5 Flash takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3.5-Flash 1M.
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 3.5 Flash | Bars | Qwen3.5-Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 8 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 8 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 10 | 1 | ||
| General | 21 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 52 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index80
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1499 | 1244 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.6% | 83.3% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 78.8% | 64.4% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 6.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 48.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 26.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 74.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 52.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SciCode | 53.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 46.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| WeirdML | 62.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ALE-Bench | 911.0 | 265.9 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1493 | 1412 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1494 | 1416 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1495 | 1229 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1522 | 1291 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1504 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 33.6 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.9 | 143.5 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1202 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1197 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1175 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1190 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1098 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1180 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1142 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1178 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 57.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 21.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 30.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 63.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 5.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| APEX-Agents | 27.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,396 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.7% | 82.8% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 88.3% | 81.9% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 42.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 92.8% | 82.3% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| ARC-AGI | 92.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SimpleBench | 76.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Chess puzzles | 45.0% | 14.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Mystery game puzzles | 32.0% | 20.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| EBR-bench | 4.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1488 | 1403 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1495 | 1407 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1483 | 1409 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1323 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1330 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 92.5% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 95.6% | 84.4% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 62.8% | 18.2% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ProofBench | 31.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1504 | 1407 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1495 | 1413 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index101
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 89.5% | 84.1% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.6% | 84.3% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 64.7% | 63.6% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.4% | 72.2% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.1% | 67.4% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 55.8% | 33.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| SimpleQA Verified | 66.2% | 20.3% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: science | 1495 | 1415 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1483 | 1407 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1488 | 1398 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1467 | 1394 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1268 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1272 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1263 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1236 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1244 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1266 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1254 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1253 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index210
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 59.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 49.9% | 42.5% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 76.6% | 70.6% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 62.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| IFBench | 76.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 74.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| DTBench | 94.7% | 82.9% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMCA | 47.1% | 29.1% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 58.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text | 1482 | 1397 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1467 | 1374 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1470 | 1343 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Vision | 1308 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1481 | 1404 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1475 | 1385 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1527 | 1445 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: German | 1494 | 1390 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1486 | 1369 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1448 | 1344 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: French | 1490 | 1413 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1480 | 1400 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1493 | 1380 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1516 | 1376 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1481 | 1393 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1483 | 1392 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1478 | 1369 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1459 | 1347 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1305 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1377 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1317 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1321 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1301 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Document | 1463 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash | 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
Qwen3.5-Flash costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.5-Flash costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.5-Flash 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 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Qwen | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | May 19, 2026 | February 25, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.50 | $0.065 |
| Output $/Mtok | $9.00 | $0.26 |
| Coding index | 42.8 | 6.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.21 | $0.40 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3.5-Flash for coding?
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash for coding: it scores 42.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 6.2 for Qwen3.5-Flash. Pick Qwen3.5-Flash when output tokens cost 34.6x less, or when a solved task costs $0.40 against $1.21.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3.5-Flash?
Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $9.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-Flash costs $0.065 and $0.26. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.21 and Qwen3.5-Flash $0.40.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3.5-Flash?
Gemini 3.5 Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3.5-Flash comparison based on?
53 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 3.5 Flash's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Qwen3.5-Flash's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.