Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen3.8-Max

Gemini 3.8 Flash leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 6.8 points, and Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on 6 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

Model

Compared with

GoogleGemini 3.8 Flash80.6%Rank #2 AlibabaQwen3.8-Max73.8%Rank #4

At a glance

Measure	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Qwen3.8-Max
Visual Intelligence Index	80.6%	73.8%
Rank	#2 of 9	#4 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.	$0.0474	$0.151
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.	25.5s	66.0s
Tokens per task	60,794	68,932
Input / 1M tokens	$0.75	$2.00
Output / 1M tokens	$3.75	$6.00
Context window	1M	1M
Availability	Proprietary	Proprietary

How cost and latency are measured

Capabilities

Each capability index is a weighted mean of the benchmarks that contribute to the capability.

Capability	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Perception	79.8%	72.0%	+7.8
Spatial Reasoning	82.5%	74.3%	+8.2
Temporal Reasoning	81.3%	73.6%	+7.8
Action / Event Understanding	78.2%	71.5%	+6.7
Causal Reasoning	81.6%	78.2%	+3.4
Information Retrieval	79.4%	72.0%	+7.4

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Video-MME v2	71.3%	60.2%	+11.0
LVBench	86.4%	58.9%	+27.5
Perception Test	85.5%	83.9%	+1.5
NExT-QA	88.0%	87.6%	+0.4
Q-Bench Video	69.3%	69.0%	+0.3
EgoSchema	80.8%	85.2%	−4.4
UCF101-AD	63.5%	56.5%	+7.0

Usability

Gemini 3.8 Flash

4.0/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable0.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — not supported
Self-hostable — not supported
Multimodal input1.0: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — supported

Qwen3.8-Max

3.5/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable0.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — not supported
Self-hostable — not supported
Multimodal input0.5: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — not supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — supported