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Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Vendor	qwen	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	18.3	-
Input Price	$0.10/M	$0.25/M
Output Price	$0.15/M	$1.50/M
Context Window	262,144	1,048,576
Max Output	32,768	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	22.5	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
SQL Generation	133	133
Code Review	130	132
Code Completion	129	131
Code Refactoring	131	136
Bug Fixing	134	136
Unit Test Generation	123	124
Code Documentation	128	131
Regex Writing	122	119
CI/CD Pipelines	119	120
Frontend Component Design	124	122
Data Analysis	127	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	129	133
ETL Scripting	125	128
JSON Extraction	131	131
Bulk Data Labeling	129	129
OCR / Document Parsing	129	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	129	131
Long-Document Summarization	133	137
Short-Form Summarization	125	123
Blog Post Writing	121	121

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