Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
88
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
67
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 3.5 Flash #7 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #22
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+25.7 difference
Coding
+12.4 difference
Knowledge
+2.5 difference
Multimodal
+7.7 difference
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$1.5 / $9
N/A
284.2 t/s
N/A
18.55s
N/A
1M
262K
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 88 to 67. 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 51.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 76.2% to 51.5%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemini 3.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 88 to 67. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 76.2% and 51.5%.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.5 versus 58. Inside this category, HLE 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 54.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 51.5. Inside this category, Toolathlon is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.8 versus 76.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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