My experience with qwen-3.6:35B-A3B reinforces this, gonna give this a spin when unsloth has quants available
Gemini flash was just as good as pro for most tasks with good prompts, tools, and context. Gemma 4 was nearly as good as flash and Qwen 3.6 appears to be even better.
> when unsloth has quants available
https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF