# Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3.8 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Last updated: September 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 3.5 Flash only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.8 Max leads overall 71.76 to 68.16.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 59.4 for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 86.5 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MRCRv2 in Reasoning, with scores of 77.3% and 92.9%.
- Qwen3.8 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 68.16 | 71.76 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 60 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $9.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 51.7 (Supported · #44/153)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.3 (Supported · #9/153)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 76.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 56.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 78.4% | 86.1% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Finance Agent v2 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 61.85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 18.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.2% | 67.4% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 27.3% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 57.4 (Supported · #33/152)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #20/152)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 76.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 67.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Vibe Code Bench | 48.68% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 48.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.6% | 87.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 78.8% | 85.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 15.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 86.9 (#6/48)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87.4 (#5/48)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 84.2% | 93.5% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMMU-Pro | 83.6% | 82.3% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 33.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 49.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 63.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 59.4 (#16/20)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 86.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 77.3% | 92.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MRCR 1M | 26.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 66.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 67.8 (Supported · #19/183)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.8 (Supported · #17/183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 92.7% | 92.6% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| HLE | 40.2% | 43.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | 93.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.5% | 88.6% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 86.9 (#36/123)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 90.7 (#18/123)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 55.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 38.966% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 14.583% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3.8 Max?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 59.4 for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 86.5 for Qwen3.8 Max.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.5 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.5 Flash currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 60 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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