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Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview from Google and Qwen3.8 Max 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 3 Pro Image Preview
Google · text, image → text

Gemini-3-Pro-Image-Preview (Nano Banana Pro) is a high-performance image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. It delivers enhanced multimodal understanding and real-world semantic reasoning, enabling fast creation of well-structured visual content such as infographics, product sketches, and multi-subject scenes. It can also leverage real-time knowledge through Search grounding. The model excels in text rendering, consistent multi-image blending, and identity preservation, while offering fine-grained creative controls like localized edits, lighting and focus adjustments, camera transformations, and flexible aspect ratios. It’s ideal for rapid design, concept previews, product visualization, and everyday image generation workflows.

Input$2 /M
Output$12 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$2
$1.69
Output /M
$12
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
0
1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
2.4 s
12.5 s
Throughput
101.3 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
November 20, 2025
August 3, 2026

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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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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Cost calculator

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

Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
$300 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview: $12/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview at 101.3 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 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 3 Pro Image Preview accepts text and image input and supports thinking; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and Qwen3.8 Max 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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