Head-to-head comparison across 5benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
88
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
56
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 3.5 Flash #7 · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #20
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+26.6 difference
Coding
+3.9 difference
Reasoning
+15.7 difference
Knowledge
+21.3 difference
Inst. Following
+15.6 difference
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
$1.5 / $9
$0 / $0
284.2 t/s
N/A
18.55s
N/A
1M
262K
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 88 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.5 Flash's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 77.2 against 50.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 76.2% to 40.5%. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.50 input / $9.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Gemini 3.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 88 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 76.2% and 40.5%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 58. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 58.4 versus 54.5. Gemini 3.5 Flash stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 59. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 50.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 76.3. Gemini 3.5 Flash stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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