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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $0.40 per million on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.10 per million on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.01 per million on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 1,048,576 tokens on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.3s on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 147.7 tok/s on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 scores 1424 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

gemini-2.5-flash-lite latest preview version

Input$0.10 /M
Output$0.40 /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

Pricing & Specifications

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

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$0.10
$0.34
Output /M
$0.40
$1.01
Cache read /M
$0.01
$0.03
Context length
1,048,576
983,616
Max output
65,536
131,072
Time to First Token
0.3 s
2.4 s
Throughput
147.7 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-flash-lite-preview-09-2025qwen3.8-max-preview
1380144015001560
Overall
14111481
Coding
14241520
Math
14061504
Hard prompts
14201506
Instruction following
14021478
Multi-turn
14031496
Creative writing
13971469
Longer query
14191497
Chinese
14451545
English
14121486
Vision
gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025qwen3.8-max-preview
1180124013001360
Overall
12141302
OCR
12231317
Diagram
12361331
Homework
12371335

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.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025
$12.00 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025, Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025: $0.40/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/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 Lite Preview 09 2025: 1424 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025: 0.3s 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 Lite Preview 09 2025 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 Lite Preview 09 2025 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09 2025 at 147.7 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 Lite Preview 09 2025 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 Lite Preview 09 2025 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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