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Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Qwen3.6 Max

Full profiles: Gemini 4 Hydrogen (Google) and Qwen3.6 Max (Alibaba): every benchmark, price and rank.

Updated · Data from 7 sources

As of 13 Nov 2026, Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.6 Max are neck and neck on quality (63.4 vs 62.1 on the BenchLeader Index, inside the ±3.6 margin), and they cost about the same at $3.00 vs $2.92 per 1M tokens blended. Choose Gemini 4 Hydrogen for coding (69 vs 56), reasoning (70 vs 61), and knowledge (69 vs 60); choose Qwen3.6 Max for agents & tools (72 vs 62).

Key facts (as of 13 Nov 2026)

  • Gemini 4 Hydrogen scores 63.4 on the BenchLeader Index and Qwen3.6 Max scores 62.1 (BenchLeader, 13 Nov 2026).
  • Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs $3.00 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 13 Nov 2026).
  • Qwen3.6 Max costs $2.92 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 13 Nov 2026).
  • Of the 8 benchmarks both models have, Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads 8 (BenchLeader, 13 Nov 2026).
  • On Arena WebDev, Gemini 4 Hydrogen is rated 1704 and Qwen3.6 Max 1482 (LMArena, as published by 13 Nov 2026).
Gemini 4 Hydrogen benchmarks high Google Qwen3.6 Max benchmarks max AlibabaAdd a third model

Which to pick for…

The pick's numbers come first. Category scores on the BenchLeader scale (50 is the average model, 15 points one standard deviation). High confidence means a lead of half a standard deviation or more; under one point is called either.

Use casePickWhyConfidence
CodingGemini 4 Hydrogen69 vs 56 category score; Arena WebDev 1704 vs 1482High
Agents & tool useQwen3.6 Max72 vs 62 category scoreHigh
MathsGemini 4 Hydrogen68 vs 64 category score; Arena Maths 1495 vs 1471Medium
ReasoningGemini 4 Hydrogen70 vs 61 category score; Arena Hard Prompts 1514 vs 1481High
KnowledgeGemini 4 Hydrogen69 vs 60 category scoreHigh
Chat quality (human preference)Gemini 4 Hydrogen68 vs 65 on Arena votesMedium
Lowest costEither$3.00 vs $2.92 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.120 vs $0.109–
High volume on a budgetNeither flagshipA smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs–

Key differences

  • Gemini 4 Hydrogen (high) and Qwen3.6 Max (max) are neck and neck on quality (63.4 vs 62.1, within the ±3.6 margin).
  • Gemini 4 Hydrogen (high) is stronger in coding, human preference, knowledge, maths, reasoning.
  • Qwen3.6 Max (max) is stronger in agents & tools.
  • They cost about the same ($2.92 per 1M blended).

At a glance

SpecGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.6 Max
DeveloperGoogleAlibaba
Released12 Nov 202620 Apr 2026
Context window (tokens)1,048,576262,144
Compared atGemini 4 Hydrogen (high)Qwen3.6 Max (max)
Open weightsNoNo
Price in / out / cached input per 1M$1.50 / $7.50 / $0.075$1.30 / $7.80 / $0.130

Category by category

Category scores on the BenchLeader scale: 50 is the average evaluated model, 15 points is one standard deviation. A gap under one point is called level.

CategoryGemini 4 Hydrogen (high)Qwen3.6 Max (max)Leader
Reasoning69.660.8Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Coding68.855.9Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Agents & tools61.972.1Qwen3.6 Max
Maths67.864.4Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Knowledge68.559.7Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Instruction following–74.7not comparable
Human preference68.264.5Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Long context–65.0not comparable

On one chart

Each domain on the index's own scale, where 50 is an average model. Click a domain to see the benchmarks behind it. Pick up to 5 models from the list.

2550 avg75ReasoningCodingAgents & toolsMathsKnowledgeHumanpreferenceGemini 4 Hydrogen, Reasoning: 69.6Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Coding: 68.8Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Agents & tools: 61.9Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Maths: 67.8Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Knowledge: 68.5Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Human preference: 68.2Qwen3.6 Max, Reasoning: 60.8Qwen3.6 Max, Coding: 55.9Qwen3.6 Max, Agents & tools: 72.1Qwen3.6 Max, Maths: 64.4Qwen3.6 Max, Knowledge: 59.7Qwen3.6 Max, Human preference: 64.5

Not drawn, measured for fewer than two of these models: Instruction following, Long context, Multimodal.

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Where sources disagree

Across the 8 benchmarks both have, Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads 8, Qwen3.6 Max leads 0. Every overall index that rates both puts Gemini 4 Hydrogen ahead.

Overall indexGemini 4 Hydrogen (high)Qwen3.6 Max (max)Leader
BenchLeader Index63.462.1neck and neck
Arena Text14901460Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Each publisher runs its own tasks, harnesses and effort settings, so their overall verdicts can differ; BenchLeader reconciles them on one scale. † measured at another effort setting of the same model (the publisher did not test the one compared here).

Price, speed and latency

List prices blended at three input tokens per output token. Per-task prices use the token counts on the methodology page. Cost, tokens and time per benchmark task are measured: Artificial Analysis’ averages over its whole Intelligence Index run.

MeasureGemini 4 Hydrogen (high)Qwen3.6 Max (max)
Blended price per 1M tokens$3.00$2.92
Input / output per 1M$1.50 / $7.50$1.30 / $7.80
Cached input per 1M$0.075$0.130
Price per task: chat reply$0.0029$0.0029
Price per task: summarize a 30-page report$0.022$0.020
Price per task: code edit$0.020$0.019
Price per task: agentic coding session$0.120$0.109
Price per task: structured extraction$0.0045$0.0042
Agentic coding session, input mostly cached$0.056$0.057
Cost per benchmark task (AA Index)$1.87–
Output tokens per task (AA Index)85k–
Of which reasoning48k–
Time per task (AA Index)8 min–
Output speed180 tok/s–
Time to first answer16.4 s–
Time to a complete answer63.3 s–

Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Gemini 4 Hydrogen (high) scores 63.4 and takes 16 s to its first answer token. Qwen3.6 Max (max) scores 62.1. Higher effort means more thinking before the answer: better scores, longer waits and more tokens billed. How reasoning effort changes scores and cost.

Every benchmark

64 benchmarks, grouped by category; each name links to the board and its leaders. † measured at another effort setting of the same model, shown for reference and not counted as a win.

MetricPublisherGemini 4 Hydrogen (high)Qwen3.6 Max (max)
BenchLeader IndexBenchLeader63.462.1
Agents & tools scoreBenchLeader61.972.1
Coding scoreBenchLeader68.855.9
Human preference scoreBenchLeader68.264.5
Knowledge scoreBenchLeader68.559.7
Maths scoreBenchLeader67.864.4
Reasoning scoreBenchLeader69.660.8
Instruction following scoreBenchLeader–74.7
Long context scoreBenchLeader–65.0
Blended price $/MBenchLeader$3.00$2.92
Output speedBenchLeader180 tok/s–
Time to first answerBenchLeader16.4 s–
Context windowBenchLeader1,048,576 tokens262,144 tokens
Reasoning
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–87.4%
SimpleBenchSimpleBench–63.0%
Arena Hard PromptsArena (LMArena)15141481
LiveBench 2.0 ReasoningLiveBench88.6%†–
GPQA Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis–88.8%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)Artificial Analysis–30.8%
HLE-Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis54.9%–
CritPtArtificial Analysis–3.7%
CritPt v2 hard subset (AA)Artificial Analysis61.5%–
Mystery Game PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–19.0%†
LMCAEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–42.5%
DTBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–87.2%
Coding
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub–76.7%
Arena CodingArena (LMArena)15181510
Arena WebDevArena (LMArena)17041482
LiveBench 2.0 CodingLiveBench78.5%†–
SWE-bench (Vals)Vals AI–72.8%
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Vals AI87.8%†–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis54.0%–
Design Arena WebsiteDesign Arena1316†–
FrontierCode 2.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis36.3%–
Agents & tools
Terminal-BenchTerminal-Bench56.4%–
LiveBench Long AgenticLiveBench61.8%†–
LiveBench BrowserLiveBench77.1%†–
Terminal-Bench HardArtificial Analysis–43.9%
Show all 64 benchmarks
MetricPublisherGemini 4 Hydrogen (high)Qwen3.6 Max (max)
Agents & tools
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)Artificial Analysis–95.9%
Finance Agent v2.1Vals AI65.1%†–
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1.1Vals AI11.3%†–
Legal Research BenchVals AI53.9%†–
Tax Agent BenchVals AI52.3%†–
Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals)Vals AI–51.7%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)Vals AI54.0%†–
Vending-Bench 2Andon Labs–4254.2
AutomationBenchArtificial Analysis74.4%–
GDP.pdf (AA)Artificial Analysis30.0%–
AA-Briefcase v1.1Artificial Analysis1497–
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis41.4%–
Maths
OTIS Mock AIMEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–91.1%
Arena MathsArena (LMArena)14951471
Knowledge
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–52.0%
LiveBench 2.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench83.2%†–
LiveBench ResearchLiveBench86.8%†–
AA-Omniscience v1.1Artificial Analysis43.7–
CorpFinVals AI–66.5%
CaseLaw v2Vals AI–47.9%
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1Vals AI75.8%†–
AA-Omniscience v1.1: accuracyArtificial Analysis48.2%–
AA-Omniscience v1.1: non-hallucinationArtificial Analysis91.3%–
Instruction following
IFBenchArtificial Analysis–76.6%
Arena Instruction FollowingArena (LMArena)15031451
Human preference
Arena TextArena (LMArena)14901460
Arena Creative WritingArena (LMArena)14921438
Arena Multi-turnArena (LMArena)14761466
Arena Longer QueriesArena (LMArena)15141473
Multimodal
LiveBench DesignLiveBench77.3%†–
Long context
AA-LCR v1.1Artificial Analysis–80.7%
MLCRArtificial Analysis21.1%†–
Composite
Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–149.8
LiveBench 2.0LiveBench77.0%†–
AA Intelligence Index v5.0Artificial Analysis50.8–
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2Artificial Analysis–28.4
AA Progress Index v1Artificial Analysis–297.1
Vals IndexVals AI68.5†–
Vals Finance IndexVals AI66.1%†–

Data as of 2026-11-13. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

What changed

  • Gemini 4 Hydrogen (high): 10 new results (Arena Text, Arena Hard Prompts, Arena Coding…).
  • Qwen3.6 Max (max): BenchLeader Index 62.8 → 62.3.
  • Qwen3.6 Max (max): 1 new result (AA Progress Index v1).
  • Qwen3.6 Max (max): BenchLeader Index 63.3 → 62.8.

Rankings: Best LLM overall · Best LLM for agents · Best cheap LLMs

Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Qwen3.6 Max: questions

Is Gemini 4 Hydrogen better than Qwen3.6 Max?
Gemini 4 Hydrogen (high) and Qwen3.6 Max (max) are neck and neck on quality (63.4 vs 62.1, within the ±3.6 margin). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; the two are within the margin of error as of 13 Nov 2026, so check the category scores for your use.
Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Qwen3.6 Max: which is cheaper, and will that change?
Qwen3.6 Max is cheaper today: $2.92 against $3.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token. No price change has been announced for either.
Is Gemini 4 Hydrogen or Qwen3.6 Max better for coding?
Gemini 4 Hydrogen scores higher in coding (69 vs 56 on the category index, where 50 is average). On Arena WebDev, the top shared coding benchmark, it is 1704 for Gemini 4 Hydrogen against 1482 for Qwen3.6 Max.
Is Gemini 4 Hydrogen or Qwen3.6 Max better for agents and tool use?
Qwen3.6 Max scores higher in agentic tasks (72 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is better for long documents?
Gemini 4 Hydrogen accepts more context: 1,048,576 against 262,144 tokens for Qwen3.6 Max.
More questions (2)
Do independent benchmarks agree on Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Qwen3.6 Max?
Across the 8 benchmarks both have, Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads 8, Qwen3.6 Max leads 0. Every overall index that rates both puts Gemini 4 Hydrogen ahead.
When was Gemini 4 Hydrogen released?
Gemini 4 Hydrogen was released on 12 Nov 2026.