Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max

Updated August 3, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Google

75.3/100

Supported · Public rank #9

90% interval 71.5–79.0

Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba

65.4/100

Estimated · Public rank #31

90% interval 55.5–75.3

Gemini 3.6 Flash has the higher public score estimate, 75.26 versus 65.4, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner.

2 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

Agentic work
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen3.8 Max leads on the same 1 weighted benchmark row.
Confidence: limited

Show secondary and unsupported calls

Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.
Confidence: limited
Long documents
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
No clear pick
The documented context windows are equal.
Confidence: documented
Chat turn cost
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Cache-heavy agent loop cost
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Repository review cost
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

1 Gemini 3.6 Flash only

2 Shared

50 Qwen3.8 Max only

Shared results: 2
Gemini 3.6 Flash only: 1
Qwen3.8 Max only: 50
Like-for-like categories: 1 / 8

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.

Agentic

Like-for-like

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 83.0
Qwen3.8 Max: 86.1
Weighted basis: 1 vs 1 rows
Reading: Qwen3.8 Max leads

Coding

Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max: 67.7
Weighted basis: 0 vs 1 rows
Reading: Not comparable

Reasoning

Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max: 78.3
Weighted basis: 0 vs 2 rows
Reading: Not comparable

Knowledge

Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max: 50.2
Weighted basis: 0 vs 2 rows
Reading: Not comparable

Math

Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max: Not measured
Weighted basis: 0 vs 0 rows
Reading: Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max: Not measured
Weighted basis: 0 vs 0 rows
Reading: Not comparable

Multimodal

Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max: 86.3
Weighted basis: 0 vs 2 rows
Reading: Not comparable

Instruction following

Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: Not measured
Qwen3.8 Max: 82.8
Weighted basis: 0 vs 1 rows
Reading: Not comparable

Category averages with the server-provided evidence basis for Gemini 3.6 Flash and Qwen3.8 Max
Category	Gemini 3.6 Flash	Qwen3.8 Max	Weighted basis	Reading
Agentic	83.0	86.1	Like-for-like1 vs 1 rows	Qwen3.8 Max leads
Coding	Not measured	67.7	Not comparable0 vs 1 rows	Not comparable
Reasoning	Not measured	78.3	Not comparable0 vs 2 rows	Not comparable
Knowledge	Not measured	50.2	Not comparable0 vs 2 rows	Not comparable
Math	Not measured	Not measured	Not comparable0 vs 0 rows	Not comparable
Multilingual	Not measured	Not measured	Not comparable0 vs 0 rows	Not comparable
Multimodal	Not measured	86.3	Not comparable0 vs 2 rows	Not comparable
Instruction following	Not measured	82.8	Not comparable0 vs 1 rows	Not comparable

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.

OSWorld-Verified
Agentic
Gemini 3.6 Flash: 83%Qwen3.8 Max: 86.1%Normalized gap 3.1Gemini 3.6 Flash source Qwen3.8 Max source

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Gemini 3.6 Flash: $0.00525; Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max: API rate not published; Fits in one request

Qwen3.8 Max has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 3.6 Flash: $0.0975; Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max: API rate not published; Fits in one request

Qwen3.8 Max has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 3.6 Flash: $0.135; Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max: API rate not published; Fits in one request; Cached-input rate unavailable

Qwen3.8 Max has no comparable published API token rate.

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

SpecificationGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.8 Max

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Google latest Gemini model guide

Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing

API model ID

Gemini 3.6 Flash

gemini-3.6-flash

Google Gemini 3.6 Flash model documentation

Qwen3.8 Max

qwen3.8-max

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Gemini 3.6 Flash

$0.15 per 1M cached input tokens

Google Gemini API pricing

Qwen3.8 Max

No comparable hosted API rate

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing

Documented inputs

Gemini 3.6 Flash

text, image, video, audio, pdf

Google Gemini 3.6 Flash model documentation

Qwen3.8 Max

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Gemini 3.6 Flash

text

Google Gemini 3.6 Flash model documentation

Qwen3.8 Max

Not sourced

Provider availability

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Generally Available · Gemini API, Google AI Studio

Google latest Gemini model guide

Qwen3.8 Max

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Reasoning

Qwen3.8 Max

Reasoning

Weight access

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Proprietary

Qwen3.8 Max

Proprietary

License

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Proprietary

Qwen3.8 Max

Proprietary

Release date

Gemini 3.6 Flash

2026-07-21

Qwen3.8 Max

2026-08-03

If you already use one of these models

Deployment change: The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal: Gemini 3.6 Flash has the higher public score estimate, 75.26 versus 65.4, but the 90% score intervals overlap.
Workload cost: A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff: Both models list 1M.

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence53 rows

Agentic

OSWorld-Verified
Gemini 3.6 Flash83%
Source
Qwen3.8 Max86.1%
Source
Qwen3.8 Max leads this result
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max86.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
CoWorkBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max74.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
JobBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max53.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
skillsBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max70.2%
Source
Not directly comparable
Agents' Last Exam
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max52.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
AutomationBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max27.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon-Verified
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max72.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
WideResearch
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max81.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
HLE w/ tools
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max56.2%
Source
Not directly comparable
OSWorld 2.0
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max19.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
WebArena-Verified
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max66.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
AndroidWorld
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max85.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
MobileWorld
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max77.8%
Source
Not directly comparable

Coding

deepSwe
Gemini 3.6 Flash49%
Source
Qwen3.8 Max56.6%
Source
Qwen3.8 Max leads this result
cursorBench32
Gemini 3.6 Flash53.5%
Source
Qwen3.8 Max—
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max86.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max67.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
NL2Repo
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max55.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
FrontierSWE
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max73.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
MLS-Bench Lite
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max41.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
PaperBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max93.0%
Source
Not directly comparable

Reasoning

MRCRv2
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max92.9%
Source
Not directly comparable
LongBench v2
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max66.3%
Source
Not directly comparable

Knowledge

GPQA
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max92.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
GPQA-D
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max92.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
HLE
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max43.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
HLE w/o tools
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max43.6%
Source
Not directly comparable

Multimodal

MMMU-Pro
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max82.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
MathVision
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max95.2%
Source
Not directly comparable
MathVision w/ Python
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max97.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
BabyVision
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max82.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
BabyVision w/ Python
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max91.3%
Source
Not directly comparable
ZeroBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max24.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
ZeroBench w/ Python
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max49.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
MedXpertQA (MM)
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max80.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
ScreenSpot Pro
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max84.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
Vision2Web
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max69.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
CharXiv w/o tools
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max88.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
CharXiv
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max93.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
OmniDocBench 1.5
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max92.1%
Source
Not directly comparable
OCRBench V2
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max74.2%
Source
Not directly comparable
CC-OCR
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max79.6%
Source
Not directly comparable
RealWorldQA
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max88.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
ERQA
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max77.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
SimpleVQA
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max75.0%
Source
Not directly comparable
PerceptionBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max63.5%
Source
Not directly comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max90.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
VideoMMMU
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max88.7%
Source
Not directly comparable
MMVU
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max82.4%
Source
Not directly comparable
MLVU (M-Avg)
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max90.8%
Source
Not directly comparable
LVBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max81.8%
Source
Not directly comparable

Instruction following

IFBench
Gemini 3.6 Flash—
Qwen3.8 Max82.8%
Source
Not directly comparable

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has the higher public score estimate, 75.26 versus 65.4, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted coding basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a coding winner.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max leads the like-for-like agentic tasks comparison across 1 shared weighted benchmark row.

Which costs less, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Both models list the same context window, 1M.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max

Which one for your work

Agentic work

Coding work

Long documents

Chat turn cost

Cache-heavy agent loop cost

Repository review cost

What is actually comparable

Category results, on a stated basis

Agentic

Coding

Reasoning

Knowledge

Math

Multilingual

Multimodal

Instruction following

Shape of the matched evidence

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Cache-heavy agent loop

Specification differences

Context window

API model ID

Cached-input rate

Documented inputs

Documented outputs

Provider availability

Reasoning profile

Weight access

License

Release date

Benchmark evidence

Agentic

Coding

Reasoning

Knowledge

Multimodal

Instruction following

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Which costs less, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Which has the larger context window, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

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