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Qwen3.8 Max vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

Qwen3.8 Max versus Gemini 3.5 Flash on list price and published Arena rating. Qwen3.8 Max Arena 1483 · Gemini 3.5 Flash Arena 1482 Blended list price Qwen3.8 Max $5.00 and Gemini 3.5 Flash $7.13 per 1M tokens.

Qwen3.8 MaxAlibabaArena 1483$5.00 / 1M
Qwen3.8 Max leads by 1 Arena pointsGemini 3.5 Flash costs 1.4x more
Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogleArena 1482$7.13 / 1M

Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba

Input / 1M$2.00Output / 1M$6.00Arena1483Value1541,000 coding edits$8.80

Open model

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google

Input / 1M$1.50Output / 1M$9.00Arena1482Value1441,000 coding edits$10.20

Open model

Qwen3.8 Max leads by 1 Arena points. Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 1.4x more, moving from Qwen3.8 Max to Gemini 3.5 Flash. The 1,000-edit cost uses a planning assumption of 2,000 input and 800 output tokens, not a measured trace. Share this face-off. The link renders an Open Graph image of the two models.