Models

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Gemini 3.6 Flash from Google and Qwen3.8 Max 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 3.6 Flash
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

Gemini 3.6 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 code generation, agentic execution, and spatial reasoning. This model is particularly effective for rapid agentic loops involving complex coding cycles and iterations.

Input$1.5 /M
Output$7.5 /M
Cache read$0.15 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Gemini 3.6 Flash
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$1.5
$1.69
Output /M
$7.5
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.15
$0.169
Context length
1,048,576
991,000
Max output
65,536
128,000
Time to First Token
3.4 s
2.7 s
Throughput
93.5 tok/s
39.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimageaudiovideo
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong context
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
chat_completions · gemini_api · claude_api
Released
July 21, 2026
August 3, 2026

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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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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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
gemini-3.6-flashqwen3.8-max
1440148015201560
Overall
14801480
Coding
15181520
Math
14971504
Hard prompts
15001502
Instruction following
14721477
Multi-turn
14871493
Creative writing
14661469
Longer query
14861492
Chinese
15361537
English
14831488
Vision
gemini-3.6-flashqwen3.8-max
126013001340
Overall
12851300
OCR
13011315
Diagram
13061326
Homework
13301334
WebDev Arena
gemini-3.6-flashqwen3.8-max
1500158016601740
Overall
15381670
React
15281679
HTML
15471628
Gaming
15511735
Simulations
15541667
Data analytics
15201615

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
$177 /mo
Gemini 3.6 Flash
$203 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash: $7.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max: 1520; Gemini 3.6 Flash: 1518 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max: 2.7s 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 3.6 Flash accepts 1,048,576 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 991,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.6 Flash and 128,000 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 3.6 Flash at 93.5 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 39.5 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 3.6 Flash accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3.8 Max 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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