Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemini 3 Pro
78
Winner · 5/8 categoriesQwen3.6 Plus
69
2/8 categoriesGemini 3 Pro· Qwen3.6 Plus
Pick Gemini 3 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Gemini 3 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 78 to 69. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3 Pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 75.1 against 62. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 90% to 62%. Qwen3.6 Plus does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6 Plus is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 3 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 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 1M for Qwen3.6 Plus.
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| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticGemini 3 Pro wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 68% | 61.6% |
| BrowseComp | 83% | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66% | 62.5% |
| Claw-Eval | — | 58.7% |
| QwenClawBench | — | 57.2% |
| QwenWebBench | — | 1502 |
| TAU3-Bench | — | 70.7% |
| VITA-Bench | — | 44.3% |
| DeepPlanning | — | 41.5% |
| Toolathlon | — | 39.8% |
| MCP Atlas | — | 48.2% |
| MCP-Tasks | — | 74.1% |
| WideResearch | — | 74.3% |
| CodingQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| HumanEval | 91% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 59% | 78.8% |
| LiveCodeBench | 49% | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 58% | 56.6% |
| SWE Multilingual | — | 73.8% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 87.1% |
| NL2Repo | — | 37.9% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemini 3 Pro wins | ||
| MMMU | 87.2% | 86.0% |
| MMMU-Pro | 81% | 78.8% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 92% | — |
| RealWorldQA | 83.3% | 85.4% |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 88.5% | 91.2% |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 88.4% | 87.8% |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 87.7% | 84.2% |
| MathVision | 86.6% | 88.0% |
| We-Math | 86.9% | 89.0% |
| DynaMath | 85.1% | 88.0% |
| MStar | 83.1% | 83.3% |
| SimpleVQA | 73.2% | 67.3% |
| ChatCVQA | 81.4% | 81.5% |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 60.5% | 62.0% |
| CC-OCR | 79.0% | 83.4% |
| AI2D_TEST | 94.1% | 94.4% |
| CountBench | 97.3% | 97.6% |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 84.1% | 93.5% |
| ODINW13 | 46.3% | 51.8% |
| ERQA | 70.5% | 65.7% |
| VideoMMMU | 87.6% | 84.0% |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 83.0% | 86.7% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 72.7% | 68.2% |
| ReasoningGemini 3 Pro wins | ||
| MuSR | 93% | — |
| BBH | 90% | — |
| LongBench v2 | 90% | 62% |
| MRCRv2 | 87% | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| AI-Needle | — | 68.3% |
| KnowledgeGemini 3 Pro wins | ||
| MMLU | 99% | — |
| GPQA | 97% | 90.4% |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 71.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 83% | 88.5% |
| HLE | 20% | 28.8% |
| FrontierScience | 86% | — |
| SimpleQA | 95% | — |
| MMLU-Redux | — | 94.5% |
| C-Eval | — | 93.3% |
| Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| IFEval | 88% | 94.3% |
| IFBench | — | 74.2% |
| MultilingualGemini 3 Pro wins | ||
| MGSM | 89% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | 85% | 84.7% |
| NOVA-63 | — | 57.9% |
| INCLUDE | — | 85.1% |
| PolyMath | — | 77.4% |
| VWT2k-lite | — | 84.3% |
| MAXIFE | — | 88.2% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | 99% | — |
| AIME 2024 | 99% | — |
| AIME 2025 | 98% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | 95% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 97% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 96% | — |
| BRUMO 2025 | 96% | — |
| MATH-500 | 91% | — |
| AIME26 | — | 95.3% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 96.7% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 94.6% |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | — | 87.8% |
| MMAnswerBench | — | 83.8% |
Gemini 3 Pro is ahead overall, 78 to 69. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 90% and 62%.
Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.7 versus 66. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.9 versus 54.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 62. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.1 versus 62. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 78.8. Inside this category, RefCOCO (avg) is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 88. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 86.4 versus 84.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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