Gemini 3 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3 Flash is developed by Google, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Gemini 3 Flash was released in December 2025, and Qwen3.8 Max followed 8 months later in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max has a published size of about 2.4 trillion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 3 Flash.
The two models share 6 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Max leads on 6 of them. The widest gaps are on MRCR v2 (8-needle), where Qwen3.8 Max scores 93.0% against 22.1%; Toolathlon, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 72.5% against 49.4%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 3 Flash sits at 63.0% and Qwen3.8 Max at 71.0%.
Gemini 3 Flash is the cheaper API at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, roughly 5 times cheaper than Qwen3.8 Max at $2.50 and $6.25. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Gemini 3 Flash accepts text, images, audio, and video as input, while Qwen3.8 Max accepts text and images.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | |
| Release Date | December 16, 2025 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 66K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.50 | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.00 | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 63.0% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MRCR v2 (8-needle) | 22.1% | 93.0% |
| Toolathlon | 49.4% | 72.5% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 69.1% | 84.5% |
| GPQA | 90.0% | 92.6% |
| MMMU-Pro | 81.2% | 82.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 43.5% | 43.6% |
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Verdict
Gemini 3 Flash leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3 Flash — 0.6, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Gemini 3 Flash is 2.5x cheaper: input $0.50/1M vs $2.50/1M tokens.
Gemini 3 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Max is newer: released 8/2/2026 vs 12/16/2025.
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