Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) costs $0.84 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $3.50, so Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) is about 4.1 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,000,000 and 1,048,576 tokens, about 1,500 and 1,573 pages.

Only Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.8 Max (0902) leads 77.3 to 69.0.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) on 7 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others).

Pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) if you need benchmark performance; pick Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) if you need lower cost or audio input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.