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Google: Gemini Pro Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

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

Google: Gemini Pro Latest Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendor~googleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-52.9
Input Price$2.00/M$0.10/M
Output Price$10.00/M$0.90/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,718235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-52.2
ai_index_agentic-35.3
ai_index_coding-69.1

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.33 and Gemini Pro Latest costs $4.50, so Qwen3.6 35B A3B is about 13.8 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 Qwen3.6 35B A3B.

Only Gemini Pro Latest offers audio input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.6 35B A3B on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Gemini Pro Latest if you need long documents or audio input; pick Qwen3.6 35B A3B 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: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 132 154
Code Review 132 147
Code Completion 117 130
Code Refactoring 136 144
Bug Fixing 136 156
Unit Test Generation 124 140
Code Documentation 129 133
Regex Writing 117 129
CI/CD Pipelines 120 132
Frontend Component Design 122 137
Data Analysis 124 151
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 141
ETL Scripting 128 138
JSON Extraction 121 143
Bulk Data Labeling 118 133
OCR / Document Parsing 131 138
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 138
Long-Document Summarization 136 142
Short-Form Summarization 113 128
Blog Post Writing 120 130

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

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