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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Gemini 3.5 Flash wins 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · arena.

Category leads
speed·Gemini 3.5 Flasharena·Gemini 3.5 Flash
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3.5 Flash
#44 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
#5 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
4.6x better value than Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash
11.9 pts/$
$5.25/M
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
55.3 pts/$
$1.42/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.5 397B A17B
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +17.6
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Gemini 3.5 Flash
37.5
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
19.9
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +21.9
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
70.1
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
48.2
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +16.5
Gemini 3.5 Flash
50.2
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
33.7
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +111.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1505.5
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
1394.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +32.5
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1476.3
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
1443.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.5 397B A17B
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
37.519.9
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
70.148.2
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
50.233.7
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1505.51394.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1476.31443.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.5 Flash$1.50$9.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$33.75
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.5 397B A17B$0.39$2.45256K tokens (~128 books)$9.01