Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3.5 (397B-A17B)

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	Gemini 3.5 Flash Google's stable frontier model for sustained agentic and coding work, the current GA workhorse of the Gemini 3 family.	Qwen3.5 (397B-A17B) Alibaba's Apache-2.0 open-weight Qwen3.5 flagship MoE with very low active-parameter cost and broad multilingual coverage.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	open source
Pricing	usage	free
Strengths	+ Only stable GA model in the Gemini 3.x family as of June 2026; positioned for agentic execution and sub-agent deployment + 1M-token context window with thought preservation across multi-turn agent loops + Rich built-in tool ecosystem (search/maps grounding, code execution, file search, function calling)	+ Permissive Apache 2.0 license + Only 17B active parameters, enabling comparatively cheap inference + First-class MCP and tool-calling support via Qwen-Agent + 201-language coverage for multilingual agents
Tradeoffs	− Per Google docs: Computer Use is not supported at this moment (it was available in the Gemini 3 Flash Preview) − Output capped at 65k tokens, lower than competing flagships' 128k	− Long context beyond 262K requires YaRN extension rather than native support − Flagship commercial Qwen3-Max capabilities are not part of the open release
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