Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) vs Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) by Google or Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning) by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 34.00
Total cost: $1614

AlibabaQwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 12.70
Total cost: $234

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) scores 21.3 points higher (34.0 vs 12.7) but costs 6.9× as much to run the benchmark ($1614 vs $234; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) when you need intelligence above 12.7, and Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning) when 12.7 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)	Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	34.0	12.7	−62.6% Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 … is 62.6% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,614.42	$233.56	−85.5% Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 … is 85.5% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	20.46s	22.73s	+11.1% Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 … is 11.1% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.75 / $3.75	$0.23 / $2.30
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning) vs Gemini 3.6 Flash (High): 62.6% less intelligence, 85.5% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 11.1% slower end-to-end.

Open this matchup in the interactive picker Gemini 3.6 Flash (High): what beats it Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning): what beats it

Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46.30 for $207.

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