Models

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare Gemini 3.5 Flash from Google and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

Gemini 3.5 Flash provides sustained frontier-level intelligence optimized for real-world tasks at a higher speed and lower cost. Designed for the agentic era, it excels at sub-agent deployment, multi-step workflows, and long-horizon tasks at scale. This model is particularly effective for rapid agentic loops involving complex coding cycles and iterations.

Input$1.5 /M
Output$9 /M
Cache read$0.15 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.338 /M
Output$1.014 /M
Cache read$0.0338 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Gemini 3.5 Flash
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$1.5
$0.338
Output /M
$9
$1.014
Cache read /M
$0.15
$0.0338
Context length
1,000,000
983,616
Max output
64,000
131,072
Time to First Token
7.1 s
2.4 s
Throughput
114.1 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimageaudiovideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputswebdeepsearchlong context
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
chat_completions · gemini_api · claude_api
Released
May 19, 2026
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
gemini-3.5-flashqwen3.8-max-preview
1440148015201560
Overall
14791480
Coding
15081520
Math
14971504
Hard prompts
14971502
Instruction following
14671477
Multi-turn
14851493
Creative writing
14651466
Longer query
14821492
Chinese
15251536
English
14781488
Vision
gemini-3.5-flashqwen3.8-max-preview
126013001340
Overall
12841300
OCR
12931315
Diagram
13051326
Homework
12921334
WebDev Arena
gemini-3.5-flashqwen3.8-max-preview
14401520160016801760
Overall
15001670
React
14951679
HTML
15201628
Gaming
15271735
Simulations
15241667
Data analytics
14711615

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
Gemini 3.5 Flash
$225 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash: $9/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1508 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 3.5 Flash at 114.1 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, deep search and long context; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3.8 Max Preview with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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