Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Wins 1 of 7 areas
Facts
Wins 5 of 7 areas
Coding · Agents · Images and charts · Long documents · Following instructions
Qwen3.5 35B A3B is the stronger all-rounder.Gemini 2.5 Pro is better at facts.
Scores updated · 40 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video15Qwen3.5 35B A3B5 of 6 tests
- CodingWriting and fixing software13Qwen3.5 35B A3B3 of 5 tests · 1 tie
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked02Qwen3.5 35B A3B2 of 2 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own12Qwen3.5 35B A3B2 of 3 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts01Qwen3.5 35B A3B1 of 2 tests · 1 tie
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up21Gemini 2.5 Pro2 of 3 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking11Even1 each · 1 tie
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs 80% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen3.5 35B A3B pulls ahead
- Finds hard-to-locate facts by browsing the webBrowseComp+51.1points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+23.8points ahead
- Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+12.3points ahead
Where Gemini 2.5 Pro pulls ahead
- Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+19points ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+8.6points ahead
- Customer-service tasks in a simulated bankτ-Bench V3 · Banking+4.8points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 40 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3.5 35B A3B
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 12.328.540.8+12.3
- SciCodeGemini 2.5 Pro by 8.646.337.7+8.6
- SWE-bench VerifiedQwen3.5 35B A3B by 663.269.2+6
- LMArena · WebDevQwen3.5 35B A3B by 26 rating points12241250+26 rating
- Terminal-Bench Hardtie26.526.5tie
AgentsQwen3.5 35B A3B
- BrowseCompQwen3.5 35B A3B by 51.19.961+51.1
- GDPValQwen3.5 35B A3B by 5.605.6+5.6
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingGemini 2.5 Pro by 4.89.74.9+4.8
ReasoningEven
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3.5 35B A3B by 31821+3
- CritPtGemini 2.5 Pro by 1.72.60.9+1.7
- GPQA Diamondtie83.684.5tie
FactsGemini 2.5 Pro
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyGemini 2.5 Pro by 193920.1+19
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationQwen3.5 35B A3B by 5.59.114.6+5.5
- Vectara HHEM hallucination ratelower is betterGemini 2.5 Pro by 3.5710.5+3.5
Images and chartsQwen3.5 35B A3B
Long documentsQwen3.5 35B A3B
- AA-LCRQwen3.5 35B A3B by 36972+3
- LongBench v2tie58.859tie
Following instructionsQwen3.5 35B A3B
- IFBenchQwen3.5 35B A3B by 23.848.772.5+23.8
- Multi-ChallengeQwen3.5 35B A3B by 6.453.660+6.4
Other results16 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- BrowseComp-ZHQwen3.5 35B A3B by 37.332.269.5+37.3
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 35.154.189.2+35.1
- AA-OmniscienceGemini 2.5 Pro by 31.8-16.4-48.1+31.8
- HMMT 2025Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 23.565.789.2+23.5
- MATH-VisionQwen3.5 35B A3B by 10.673.383.9+10.6
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexGemini 2.5 Pro by 9.746.737+9.7
- HMMT Nov. 2025Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 9.28089.2+9.2
- AA Agentic IndexQwen3.5 35B A3B by 8.33.511.8+8.3
- HMMT Feb. 2025Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 8.280.889+8.2
- AA IntelligenceQwen3.5 35B A3B by 4.31519.3+4.3
- vectara_factual_consistencyGemini 2.5 Pro by 3.59389.5+3.5
- VideoMMMUGemini 2.5 Pro by 3.283.680.4+3.2
- vectara_avg_summary_lengthGemini 2.5 Pro by 11.5 rating points106.494.9+11.5 rating
- MMLU-Protie8685.3tie
- vectara_answer_ratetie99.199.8tie
- OCRBench v2 (Chinese)tie62.261.7tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3.5 35B A3B?
Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins five of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, images and charts, long documents and following instructions. Gemini 2.5 Pro wins facts. They are level on reasoning.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3.5 35B A3B. It wins 3 of the 5 coding tests both models report; Gemini 2.5 Pro wins 1, and 1 is a tie.
Which is cheaper?
Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs $0.25 and $2.00. That makes Qwen3.5 35B A3B about 80% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 40 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 24 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 16 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.