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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image 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 3.1 Flash Lite Image
Google · text, image → text

Google's newest, most compact, and most cost-effective image generation and editing model, designed for large-scale use.

Input$0.25 /M
Output$1.5 /M
Cache read$0.025 /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 3.1 Flash Lite Image
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.25
$1.69
Output /M
$1.5
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.025
$0.169
Context length
65,536
1,000,000
Max output
4,096
131,072
Time to First Token
0.5 s
12.5 s
Throughput
42.1 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
June 30, 2026
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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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.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image
$37.50 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, Qwen3.8 Max?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image: $1.5/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image: 0.5s 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 3.1 Flash Lite Image accepts 65,536 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 4,096 tokens on Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image at 42.1 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 3.1 Flash Lite Image 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 3.1 Flash Lite Image 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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