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Gemini 3 Flash PreviewvsQwen3.5 397B-A17B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 11 of 13 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
11 – 2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Google · Qwen
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Google · released 2025-12-17
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
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Output /1M
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Cached /1M
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Scores
34 · 12 core
Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
Qwen · released 2026-02-15
textvision
Context
262K
Max out
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Input /1M
$0.6 ↗
Output /1M
$3.6 ↗
Cached /1M
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Scores
22 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3.5 397B-A17BΔEdge
Reported by both · 13
SWE-bench Verified78% ↗76.4% ↗+1.6 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
GPQA Diamond90.4% ↗88.4% ↗+2 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Elo1472.7 ↗1438.3 ↗+34.4Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)40% ↗epoch run13% ↗epoch run+27 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)51.2% ↗epoch run29.5% ↗epoch run+21.7 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1272.9 ↗1246.9 ↗+26Gemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1438.9 ↗1399.4 ↗+39.5Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)26% ↗epoch run18% ↗epoch run+8 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)95.6% ↗epoch run88.9% ↗epoch run+6.7 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
tau2-bench Airline (Sierra)82.5% ↗81.5% ↗+1 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)27.3% ↗9.8% ↗+17.5 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
tau2-bench Retail (Sierra)76.8% ↗84.4% ↗-7.6 ptQwen3.5 397B-A17B
tau2-bench Telecom (Sierra)91.2% ↗97.8% ↗-6.6 ptQwen3.5 397B-A17B
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview reports · 13
AIME 202595.2% ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)33.7% ↗not reported——
BALROG (BALROG)48.1% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)17.1% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)7.8% ↗not reported——
MMMU-Pro81.2% ↗not reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)51.8% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)61.1% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified68.7% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)75.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.047.6% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)3634.72 ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)61.6% ↗not reported——
Only Qwen3.5 397B-A17B reports · 4
MMLU-Pronot reported87.8% ↗——
AIME 2026not reported94.2% ↗matharena ⚠——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)not reported24.9% ↗——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)not reported40.7% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 3 Flash Preview minus Qwen3.5 397B-A17B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

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SpecGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3.5 397B-A17BEdge
Context window1.0M tokens262K tokensGemini 3 Flash Preview
Max output66K tokens——
Input price / 1M—$0.6 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$3.6 ↗—
Cached input / 1M———
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
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Modalitiestext · vision · audiotext · visionGemini 3 Flash Preview
Released2025-12-172026-02-15—
Cited benchmark scores3422—
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