Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3.5-27B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemini 3.1 Pro· Qwen3.5-27B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.1 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-27B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 87 to 71. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3.1 Pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 88.3 against 60.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 77% to 41.6%. Qwen3.5-27B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.25 input / $5.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-27B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.5-27B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 3.1 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 3.1 Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.5-27B.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$1.25 / $5.00Free*
Speed109 t/sN/A
TTFT29.71sN/A
Context1M262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemini 3.1 ProQwen3.5-27B
AgenticGemini 3.1 Pro wins
Terminal-Bench 2.077%41.6%
BrowseComp86%61%
OSWorld-Verified68%56.2%
tau2-bench79%
CodingQwen3.5-27B wins
HumanEval91%
SWE-bench Verified75%72.4%
LiveCodeBench71%80.7%
SWE-bench Pro72%
SWE-Rebench62.3%
React Native Evals78.9%
Multimodal & GroundedGemini 3.1 Pro wins
MMMU-Pro95%75%
OfficeQA Pro95%
ReasoningGemini 3.1 Pro wins
MuSR93%
BBH92%
LongBench v293%60.6%
MRCRv290%
ARC-AGI-277.1%
KnowledgeGemini 3.1 Pro wins
MMLU99%
GPQA97%85.5%
SuperGPQA95%65.6%
MMLU-Pro92%86.1%
HLE40%
FrontierScience88%
SimpleQA95%
Instruction FollowingTie
IFEval95%95%
MultilingualGemini 3.1 Pro wins
MGSM96%
MMLU-ProX93%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
HMMT Feb 202395%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50097%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro is ahead overall, 87 to 71. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 77% and 41.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.7 versus 80.6. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.6 versus 68.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 88.3 versus 60.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.1 versus 51.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 75. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro and Qwen3.5-27B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 95 on average.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Gemini 3.1 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.1 versus 82.2. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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