Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 52.9 | - |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $0.25/M |
| Output Price | $0.90/M | $1.50/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 235,929 | 65,536 |
| 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 3.1 Flash Lite Preview costs $0.62, so Qwen3.6 35B A3B is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview 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 3.1 Flash Lite Preview offers audio input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.6 35B A3B scores higher on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview on 1 (Code Completion).
Qwen3.6 35B A3B was released in April 2026 and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview in March 2026.
Pick Qwen3.6 35B A3B if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview if you need long documents or audio input.
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?
| Task | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 154 | 133 |
| Code Review | 147 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 130 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 144 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 156 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 140 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 133 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 129 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 132 | 120 |
| Frontend Component Design | 137 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 151 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 141 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 143 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 133 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 138 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 138 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 142 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 128 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →