Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Wins 1 of 8 areas
Facts
Wins 7 of 8 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Images and charts · Math · Long documents · Following instructions
Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger all-rounder.Gemini 2.5 Pro is better at facts.
Scores updated · 33 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the eight areas we test. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- CodingWriting and fixing software14Qwen3.6 Plus4 of 5 tests
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video03Qwen3.6 Plus3 of 4 tests · 1 tie
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking02Qwen3.6 Plus2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own02Qwen3.6 Plus2 of 2 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts02Qwen3.6 Plus2 of 2 tests
- MathCompetition and research-level math01Qwen3.6 Plus1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked01Qwen3.6 Plus1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up21Gemini 2.5 Pro2 of 3 tests
Math and following instructions rest on a single test each.
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.
Qwen3.6 Plus costs 69% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen3.6 Plus pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+56.3points ahead
- Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+32.9points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+26.5points ahead
Where Gemini 2.5 Pro pulls ahead
- Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+12.7points ahead
- Short factual questions, answered correctlySimpleQA Verified+11.9points ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+5.6points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 33 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3.6 Plus
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Qwen3.6 Plus by 32.928.561.4+32.9
- LMArena · WebDevQwen3.6 Plus by 237 rating points12241461+237 rating
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen3.6 Plus by 17.426.543.9+17.4
- SWE-bench VerifiedQwen3.6 Plus by 15.663.278.8+15.6
- SciCodeGemini 2.5 Pro by 5.646.340.7+5.6
AgentsQwen3.6 Plus
- GDPValQwen3.6 Plus by 24.7024.7+24.7
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingQwen3.6 Plus by 11.19.720.8+11.1
ReasoningQwen3.6 Plus
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3.6 Plus by 9.81827.8+9.8
- GPQA DiamondQwen3.6 Plus by 4.683.688.2+4.6
- CritPttie2.62.9tie
FactsGemini 2.5 Pro
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationQwen3.6 Plus by 56.39.165.4+56.3
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyGemini 2.5 Pro by 12.73926.4+12.7
- SimpleQA VerifiedGemini 2.5 Pro by 11.95644.1+11.9
Images and chartsQwen3.6 Plus
Long documentsQwen3.6 Plus
- AA-LCRQwen3.6 Plus by 9.36978.3+9.3
- LongBench v2Qwen3.6 Plus by 3.258.862+3.2
Following instructionsQwen3.6 Plus
- IFBenchQwen3.6 Plus by 26.548.775.2+26.5
Other results12 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.
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3.6 Plus by 43.654.197.7+43.6
- HMMT 2025Qwen3.6 Plus by 28.965.794.6+28.9
- AA Agentic IndexQwen3.6 Plus by 25.53.529+25.5
- HLE (with tools)Qwen3.6 Plus by 22.228.450.6+22.2
- AA-OmniscienceQwen3.6 Plus by 17.2-16.40.9+17.2
- MATH-VisionQwen3.6 Plus by 14.773.388+14.7
- HMMT Nov. 2025Qwen3.6 Plus by 14.68094.6+14.6
- AA IntelligenceQwen3.6 Plus by 121527+12
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexQwen3.6 Plus by 7.846.754.5+7.8
- frontiermath_tier_4_v1Qwen3.6 Plus by 4.14.28.3+4.1
- MMLU-ProQwen3.6 Plus by 2.58688.5+2.5
- VideoMMMUtie83.684tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?
Qwen3.6 Plus wins seven of the eight areas we test: coding, agents, reasoning, images and charts, math, long documents and following instructions. Gemini 2.5 Pro wins facts.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3.6 Plus. It wins 4 of the 5 coding tests both models report; Gemini 2.5 Pro wins 1.
Which is cheaper?
Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.50 and $3.00. That makes Qwen3.6 Plus about 69% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 33 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 21 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 12 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.