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Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B ·Google vs Alibaba

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview profile Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview — Google
Quality
#16 of 65
83based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#54 of 339
95.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#248 of 439
$1.12
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.50 · Out $3.00
Cache hit price
#110 of 322
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#62 of 473
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B — Alibaba
Quality
#37 of 65
66based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#88 of 339
74.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#109 of 439
$0.30
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.10 · Out $0.90
Cache hit price
#106 of 322
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#199 of 473
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores 83 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B scores 66 — a 17-point lead for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview. They share 3 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview ahead on 3 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $1.12 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and $0.30 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B — Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is about 3.8× cheaper.

Throughput is 95 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 74 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B, with time to first token at 1.5s and 1.5s. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 262k.

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 12 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Known Good Index 83 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 66 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.12 $0.30
Output tok/s 95 74
Context window 1.05M 262k
Providers 2 10
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Known Good Index 83 66
Coding Index 72
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond89 / 84
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 87
Terminal-Bench51 / 23

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview / Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads on 3 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Neither model currently appears in an arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input $/1M $0.50 $0.10
Output $/1M $3.00 $0.90
Blended $/1M $1.12 $0.30
Cache read $/1M $0.050 $0.050
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Context window 1.05M 262k
Max output tokens 66k 236k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Output tokens/s 95 74
Time to first token 1.5s 1.5s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

12 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash Preview tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B tok/s
Google AI Studio $0.56 77
Google · first party $0.56 57
CoreWeave $0.50 137
Phala $0.47 90
Io Net $0.44 85
AkashML $0.30 74
AtlasCloud $0.42 58
Parasail $0.36 55
Venice $0.33 52
SiliconFlow $0.55 51
Darkbloom $0.21 50
DeepInfra $0.31 25

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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