Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.7-Max-Preview

  • Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1475).
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.48 / $4.42 for Qwen3.7-Max-Preview.
  • On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 6 and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview wins 2 (Gemini 3.6 Flash: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, LiveCodeBench).
LMArena text rating over time
14601468147514831490May 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26
LatestGemini 3.6 Flash 1480Qwen3.7-Max-Preview 1475

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Models (2/6)
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash
  • Qwen3.7-Max-Preview
BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.7-Max-Preview
The model
LabGoogleAlibaba
Released2026-07-212026-05-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$0.75$1.48
Output, per 1M tokens$3.75$4.42
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1480#20 of 3511475#24 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1538#49 of 1241515#58 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1299#20 of 146—
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1491#34 of 3461497#29 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1507#11 of 3391488#23 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1466#21 of 3491448#35 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1486#25 of 3511482#35 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1467#31 of 3511460#40 of 351
Vals AI, coding
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects79.60%#25 of 8568.80%#66 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works64.00%#50 of 11547.67%#63 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination88.08%#8 of 14387.06%#19 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions18.04%#53 of 7615.83%#54 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research25.00%#60 of 8525.48%#59 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes53.15%#11 of 10738.75%#70 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.43%#7 of 13890.15%#25 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering89.28%#13 of 13889.31%#12 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text88.38%#7 of 93—
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal4.29%#28 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.7-Max-Preview?

Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1475). Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.48 / $4.42 for Qwen3.7-Max-Preview. On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 6 and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview wins 2 (Gemini 3.6 Flash: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, LiveCodeBench).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.7-Max-Preview?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.48 / $4.42 for Qwen3.7-Max-Preview.

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