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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Gemini 3.1 Pro and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct score 76.8% vs 55.2% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#14 and #50 of 65 models), so Gemini 3.1 Pro leads overall.

  • Gemini 3.1 Pro wins all 5 tasks, with its widest lead on reasoning (72.2% vs 29.8%).
  • Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is about 1/9 of the cost: $0.0011 vs $0.010 overall average cost per sample.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro is faster: 8.4s vs 15.9s per sample.

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct on Vision Evals

Score by taskGemini 3.1 ProQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Reasoning
72.2
29.8
Counting
71.6
47.3
OCR
72.6
56.4
Object Detection
67.4
52.1
Identification
100.0
90.6

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Comparison Table

Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 8, 2026

PropertyGemini 3.1 ProQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
OrganizationGoogleQwen
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateFeb 2026Sep 2025
Context Window1.0M256K
ParametersUnknown235B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termsfree for commercial use
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.00$0.210
Output $/1M$12.00$1.90
Vision Tasks
Both support 10 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
76.8%
55.2%
Avg cost / sample$0.010$0.0011
Avg speed / sample8.44s15.87s
By task
Object Detection
67.4%
$0.010
52.1%
$0.0014
Counting
71.6%
$0.0071
47.3%
$0.0002
Identification
100.0%
$0.0070
90.6%
$0.0002
OCR (low)
72.6%
$0.010
56.4%
$0.0013
by category
Single value
67.8%
Transcription
88.5%
Structured JSON
82.0%
Text localization
52.0%
Single value
48.3%
Transcription
84.3%
Structured JSON
71.0%
Text localization
24.0%
OCR (high)
73.1%
$0.026
55.5%
$0.0013
by category
Single value
68.7%
Transcription
90.8%
Structured JSON
83.9%
Text localization
47.1%
Single value
46.5%
Transcription
84.1%
Structured JSON
71.4%
Text localization
21.6%
Reasoning (low)
72.2%
$0.012
29.8%
$0.0002
Reasoning (high)
74.8%
$0.021
33.8%
$0.0002

Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: Overview

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro is a proprietary multimodal model from Google’s Gemini 3 series, released in early 2026 and designed for advanced reasoning across large multimodal datasets. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and documents, supporting up to a 1-million-token input context with up to 64k output tokens. Compared with Gemini 3 Pro, it improves long-context synthesis and multi-step reasoning, enabling more reliable analysis of large documents, datasets, and software codebases.

The model also advances visual understanding and grounding, allowing it to interpret UI screenshots, diagrams, and real-world scenes while referencing specific regions within images or video. These capabilities make Gemini 3.1 Pro well suited for multimodal workflows involving document processing, interface analysis, robotics research, and complex visual reasoning.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is a flagship multimodal vision-language model developed by Qwen (Alibaba Cloud), designed for instruction-following tasks that combine advanced text generation with visual understanding. It serves as a high-end open-weight model for developers and researchers building multimodal AI systems that require strong reasoning, perception, and long-context capabilities.

The model supports interleaved text and image inputs, very long context windows (up to roughly 256K tokens), and efficient inference through a mixture-of-experts architecture with about 22B active parameters out of 235B total. In today’s landscape, it competes with top-tier proprietary vision-language models while offering the advantages of open weights and flexible deployment. Typical applications include multimodal assistants, document and image analysis, visual reasoning, and large-context instruction-based workflows.