Models

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Output tokens cost $12.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $2.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 2.4s on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 101.3 tok/s on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

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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$2.00 /M
Output$12.00 /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 3 Pro Image Preview
Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Input /M
$2.00
$0.34
Output /M
$12.00
$1.01
Cache read /M
$2.00
$0.03
Context length
0
983,616
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
2.4 s
2.4 s
Throughput
101.3 tok/s
48.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinking
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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Cost calculator

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

Qwen3.8 Max Preview
$35.49 /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 Preview?

Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview: $12.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max 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 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 3 Pro Image Preview accepts text and image input and supports thinking; 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 3 Pro Image Preview 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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