# Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.8 Flash and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.8 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Gemini 3.8 Flash leads overall 69.25 to 53.78.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 65.9 for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 34.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) in Mathematics, with scores of 68.421% and 38.246%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 69.25 | 53.78 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 49 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.75 / $3.75 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 65.9 (Supported · #16/128)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 34.4 (Supported · #83/128)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Finance Agent v2 | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 19.10% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 59.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 81.3% | 53.2% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| ApprenticeBench | 24% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | 38.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | 62.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | 4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 57.2% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 41.5% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 48.2% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.60% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 61 (Supported · #17/150)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #66/150)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 73.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.5% | 86.0% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 80.0% | 73.4% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 19.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 39.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | 18.0 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 37.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 74.3 (#17/28)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 74.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 10.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 87.3 (#9/54)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 76.1 (#21/54)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv w/o tools | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 68.2% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 81.5% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 73.5 (Supported · #13/184)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 53.4 (Supported · #66/184)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE-Verified | 54.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 56.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 94.4% | 87.4% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 90.2% | 87.7% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#47/148)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 5.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 69.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.5 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 68.421% | 38.246% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 21.951% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3.8 Flash and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 65.9 for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 34.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.8 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.8 Flash currently has 31 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 49 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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