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Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Google · released

Wins 3 of 6 areas

Reasoning · Facts · Following instructions

Alibaba · released

Wins 3 of 6 areas

Coding · Agents · Long documents

The two are evenly matched.Gemini 3 Flash Preview is better at reasoning and facts; Qwen3.6 Max Preview at coding and agents.

Scores updated · 19 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the six 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.

Agents, long documents 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.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview$0.50 to read · $3.00 to write$3.50Price from Artificial Analysis
Qwen3.6 Max Preview$1.30 to read · $7.80 to write$9.10Price from Alibaba's own price page

Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs 62% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.

Where Gemini 3 Flash Preview pulls ahead

  • Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+15.5points aheadGemini 3 Flash Preview53.4Qwen3.6 Max Preview37.9
  • Short factual questions, answered correctlySimpleQA Verified+14.8points aheadGemini 3 Flash Preview66.8Qwen3.6 Max Preview52
  • Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+5.8points aheadGemini 3 Flash Preview36.6Qwen3.6 Max Preview30.8

Where Qwen3.6 Max Preview pulls ahead

  • Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+46.8points aheadQwen3.6 Max Preview53.8Gemini 3 Flash Preview7
  • Real work tasks from 44 professionsGDPVal+15points aheadQwen3.6 Max Preview50.2Gemini 3 Flash Preview35.2
  • Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+5.3points aheadQwen3.6 Max Preview43.9Gemini 3 Flash Preview38.6

Every test, side by side

All 19 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingQwen3.6 Max Preview

Full coding ranking

AgentsQwen3.6 Max Preview
  • GDPValQwen3.6 Max Preview by 1535.250.2+15

Full agents ranking

ReasoningGemini 3 Flash Preview

Full reasoning ranking

FactsGemini 3 Flash Preview

Full facts ranking

Long documentsQwen3.6 Max Preview
  • AA-LCRQwen3.6 Max Preview by 2.77880.7+2.7

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsGemini 3 Flash Preview
  • IFBenchGemini 3 Flash Preview by 1.47876.6+1.4

Full following instructions ranking

Other results6 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.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen3.6 Max Preview each win three of the six areas where both have results. Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins reasoning, facts and following instructions; Qwen3.6 Max Preview wins coding, agents and long documents. Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs 62% less.

Which is better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview. It wins 2 of the 3 coding tests both models report; Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins 1.

Which is cheaper?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Max Preview costs $1.30 and $7.80. That makes Gemini 3 Flash Preview about 62% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 19 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 13 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 6 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.