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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare Gemini 2.5 Flash from Google and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google’s best model in terms of both performance and cost efficiency, offering a comprehensive set of capabilities. It is the first Flash model to support visible reasoning, allowing insight into the thought process behind its responses. With its strong price–performance ratio, the model is well suited for large-scale processing, low-latency, high-throughput tasks that require reasoning, as well as agent-based application scenarios.

Input$0.30 /M
Output$2.50 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Qwen · text, image → text

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.

Input$0.34 /M
Output$1.01 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$0.30
$0.34
Output /M
$2.50
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.03
$0.03
Context length
1,048,576
983,616
Max output
65,536
131,072
Time to First Token
1.6 s
2.4 s
Throughput
101.7 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimageaudiovideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
gemini-2.5-flashqwen3.8-max-preview
1380144015001560
Overall
14101481
Coding
14241520
Math
14061504
Hard prompts
14201506
Instruction following
14011478
Multi-turn
14041496
Creative writing
13971469
Longer query
14191497
Chinese
14441545
English
14121486
Vision
gemini-2.5-flashqwen3.8-max-preview
1180124013001360
Overall
12141302
OCR
12221317
Diagram
12341331
Homework
12381335

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$55.49 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 2.5 Flash, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash: $2.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Gemini 2.5 Flash: 1424 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 1.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts 1,048,576 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 2.5 Flash and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 2.5 Flash at 101.7 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Gemini 2.5 Flash and Qwen3.8 Max Preview with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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