Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Qwen 3
2026 - Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Qwen 3 is open-weights - free to self-host with no API costs. Gemini 2.5 Pro requires paid API access.
- •Gemini 2.5 Pro has a 1M context window - 8x larger than Qwen 3's 128K. Better for long documents and large codebases.
- •Qwen 3 is open-source: fine-tune it, self-host it, or use any inference provider. Gemini 2.5 Pro is closed-source.
Specs comparison
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google DeepMind | Alibaba (Qwen Team) |
| Type | Closed source | Open source |
| Context window | ✓1M | 128K |
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.25 | ✓Free (self-host) |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | Free (self-host) |
| Release date | 2025-03 | 2025-04 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Qwen 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 86.4% | - |
| MMLU | 90.9% | ~87% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 63.2% | - |
| HumanEval | - | ~89% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts.
Strengths
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- ✓Largest commercial context window (1M tokens)
- ✓Top benchmark scores on science and math
- ✓Strong multimodal: video, audio, images
- ✓Competitive pricing for the capability tier
- ✓Native Google Search and code execution tools
Qwen 3
- ✓Exceptional multilingual support (100+ languages)
- ✓Apache 2.0 license - fully open for commercial use
- ✓Multiple size variants from 0.6B to 235B MoE
- ✓Strong math and coding across models
- ✓Leading performance for Chinese language tasks
Which should you choose?
Choose Gemini 2.5 Pro if you need...
- →Very long document analysis
- →Video and multimodal understanding
- →Scientific research tasks
- →Large codebase comprehension
Choose Qwen 3 if you need...
- →Multilingual applications
- →Self-hosted cost-sensitive deployments
- →Custom fine-tuning on domain-specific data
- →Asian market applications