Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3 Pro is developed by Google, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Gemini 3 Pro was released in November 2025, and Qwen3.8 Max followed 9 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 Pro.
We have 3 benchmark results for Gemini 3 Pro and 42 benchmark results for Qwen3.8 Max, but they overlap on a single test: GPQA, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 92.6% against 92.0%.
Gemini 3 Pro is the cheaper API at $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, about 25% below Qwen3.8 Max at $2.50 and $6.25. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Gemini 3 Pro accepts text, images, audio, and video as input, while Qwen3.8 Max accepts text and images.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | |
| Release Date | November 17, 2025 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 66K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.00 | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $12.00 | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 94.7% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA | 92.0% | 92.6% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3 Pro — 0.9, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Qwen3.8 Max is 1.6x cheaper: input $2.50/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Gemini 3 Pro supports a larger context: 1M vs 1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Max is newer: released 8/2/2026 vs 11/17/2025.
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