Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.6 Flash is developed by Google, while Qwen3.8 Flash comes from Alibaba. Gemini 3.6 Flash was released in July 2026, and Qwen3.8 Flash followed a month later in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Flash has a published size of about 125 billion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 3.6 Flash.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Flash leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on DeepSWE 1.1, where Qwen3.8 Flash scores 58.7% against 49.0%; SWE-Bench Pro, where Qwen3.8 Flash scores 62.5% against 58.7%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 3.6 Flash sits at 68.0% and Qwen3.8 Flash at 68.5%.
Qwen3.8 Flash is the cheaper API at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, roughly 10 times cheaper than Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 and $7.50. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts text and images as input, while Qwen3.8 Flash accepts text, images, and video. On tooling, only Gemini 3.6 Flash supports function calling and only Gemini 3.6 Flash offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Qwen3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | August 26, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 125B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 66K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.50 | $0.15 |
| Output Price / 1M | $7.50 | $0.47 |
| Average Score | 68.0% | 68.5% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 49.0% | 58.7% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 58.7% | 62.5% |
| CharXiv-R | 89.0% | 90.6% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.6 Flash — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Flash — 0.7.
Qwen3.8 Flash is 14.5x cheaper: input $0.15/1M vs $1.50/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash is newer: released 8/26/2026 vs 7/21/2026.
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