Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
88
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
79
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 3.5 Flash #7 · Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) unranked
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Agentic
+11.8 difference
Coding
+0.4 difference
Knowledge
+15.9 difference
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
$1.5 / $9
N/A
284.2 t/s
N/A
18.55s
N/A
1M
256K
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 88 to 79. 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 65.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 76.2% to 65.4%. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) 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 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Qwen 3.6 Max (preview).
Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 88 to 79. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 76.2% and 65.4%.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.9 versus 58. 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 coding in this comparison, averaging 54.5 versus 54.1. 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 65.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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