Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 2.5 Pro
64
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
66
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 2.5 Pro unranked · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #23
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 2.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Coding
+3.1 difference
Knowledge
+19.7 difference
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$1.25 / $10
N/A
117 t/s
N/A
21.19s
N/A
1M
262K
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 2.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 66 versus 64. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 60.5 against 40.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 63.8% to 73.4%.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 2.5 Pro is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemini 2.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 66 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 63.8% and 73.4%.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.5 versus 40.8. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 63.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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