The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·Google vs Alibaba

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash — Google
Quality
#3 of 62
95based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#25 of 317
126.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#281 of 370
$3.38
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.50 · Out $9.00
Cache hit price
#153 of 238
$0.15
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#58 of 375
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#5 of 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#188 of 317
43.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#252 of 370
$1.88
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.25 · Out $3.75
Cache hit price
#191 of 238
$0.25
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#103 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 95 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 2-point lead for Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash. They share 3 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash ahead on 3 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $3.38 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash and $1.88 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is about 1.8× cheaper.

Throughput is 126 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash and 43 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 1.8s and 1.2s. Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 1.00M.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 3 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 95 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $3.38 $1.88
Output tok/s 126 43
Context window 1.05M 1.00M
Providers 2 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 95 93
Mathematics Index 96 95
Agentic Index 92 88
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond93 / 92
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 95
SWE-bench Verified79 / 77

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash leads on 3 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Neither model currently appears in an arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $1.50 $1.25
Output $/1M $9.00 $3.75
Blended $/1M $3.38 $1.88
Cache read $/1M $0.150 $0.250
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 1.05M 1.00M
Max output tokens 66k 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 126 43
Time to first token 1.8s 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

3 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash blendedGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
Google AI Studio $1.69 191 — —
Google · first party $1.69 108 — —
Alibaba · first party — — $1.88 50

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0) Full attribution →