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Google: Gemini Pro Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

Google: Gemini Pro Latest Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendor~googleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-55.6
Input Price$2.00/M$0.26/M
Output Price$10.00/M$2.60/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,71881,920
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-55.7

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.5-27B costs $0.91 and Gemini Pro Latest costs $4.50, so Qwen3.5-27B is about 4.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Gemini Pro Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Qwen3.5-27B.

Only Gemini Pro Latest offers audio input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Gemini Pro Latest scores higher on 1 (CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup), Qwen3.5-27B on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Gemini Pro Latest was released in April 2026 and Qwen3.5-27B in February 2026.

Pick Gemini Pro Latest if you need long documents or audio input; pick Qwen3.5-27B if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini Pro LatestQwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 132 137
Code Review 132 137
Code Completion 117 129
Code Refactoring 136 136
Bug Fixing 136 141
Unit Test Generation 124 127
Code Documentation 129 130
Regex Writing 117 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 123
Frontend Component Design 122 128
Data Analysis 124 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 130
ETL Scripting 128 130
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 129
Long-Document Summarization 136 138
Short-Form Summarization 113 126
Blog Post Writing 120 125

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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