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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Gemini 4 Carbon: 89.4% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#1 of 68 models). We have not run Qwen3.6 Plus through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.

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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Qwen3.6 Plus Comparison Table

Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 10, 2026

PropertyGemini 4 CarbonQwen3.6 Plus
OrganizationGoogleQwen
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateNov 2026Apr 2026
Context Window1.0M1.0M
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1MNo published price$0.325
Output $/1MNo published price$1.95
Vision Tasks
ClassificationDemoSupported
Object DetectionDemoSupported
Promptable Concept SegmentationDemoNot listed
Both support 8 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
89.4%
Not evaluated
Avg cost / sample$0.0061–
Avg speed / sample8.71s–
By task
Object Detection (low)
84.5%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.2 to 84.8
$0.011
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Object Detection (high)
85.9%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 85.6 to 86.2
$0.102
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Counting (low)
90.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.2 to 91.9
$0.0024
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Counting (high)
86.9%
±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 83.8 to 89.2
$0.075
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Identification (low)
93.8%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8
$0.0024
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Identification (high)
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.019
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OCR (low)
87.2%
$0.0053
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by category
Single value
80.4%
Transcription
96.6%
Structured JSON
93.0%
Text localization
84.2%
OCR (high)
89.7%
$0.102
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by category
Single value
85.2%
Transcription
99.1%
Structured JSON
93.9%
Text localization
85.2%
Reasoning (low)
91.4%
±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.1 to 93.4
$0.0025
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Reasoning (high)
92.3%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.0 to 92.7
$0.057
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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Qwen3.6 Plus: Overview

Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon is a multimodal model from Google. It builds on Gemini 4 Argon and supports reasoning over text and images. Google describes improvements in coding and long-running tasks. Model weights are not publicly released.

Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is a flagship model in Alibaba’s Qwen Plus series, designed for agentic workflows, coding, and multi-step reasoning. It supports a 1 million token context window and up to 65,536 output tokens, with built-in reasoning capabilities. The model is available as a hosted, proprietary API through Alibaba Cloud.

Compared to Qwen3.5, it improves reliability in multi-step execution and frontend code generation, with stronger performance on agentic coding tasks. It also supports document and image understanding, though its vision capabilities are more limited than dedicated Qwen-VL models. Qwen3.6 Plus is part of a broader Qwen ecosystem that includes both closed-source APIs and open-weight models.