Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-04.
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 77.3 | 69.0 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.75/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $3.75/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 74.9 | 67.5 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $1.69 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $3.50, so Gemini 3.8 Flash is about 2.1 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 offers audio input.
On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.8 Max (0902) leads 77.3 to 69.0.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Gemini 3.8 Flash on 5 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, JSON Extraction and others).
Pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Gemini 3.8 Flash 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.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 141 |
| Code Review | 146 | 144 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 132 |
| Code Refactoring | 148 | 146 |
| Bug Fixing | 150 | 148 |
| Unit Test Generation | 133 | 132 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 125 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 129 | 128 |
| Frontend Component Design | 131 | 130 |
| Data Analysis | 135 | 134 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 137 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 128 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 148 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 129 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →