Google: Gemini 4 Carbon vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-12.
| Google: Gemini 4 Carbon | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 98.9 | - |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $4.00/M |
| Output Price | $10.00/M | $12.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 99.0 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini 4 Carbon costs $4.50 and Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs $7.00, so Gemini 4 Carbon is about 1.6 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,500 pages.
Only Gemini 4 Carbon offers audio input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemini 4 Carbon scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Gemini 4 Carbon was released in November 2026 and Qwen3.8 Max Prime in September 2026.
Pick Gemini 4 Carbon if you need lower cost, audio input or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Google: Gemini 4 Carbon | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 144 | 132 |
| Code Review | 150 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 116 |
| Code Refactoring | 151 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 154 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 135 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 138 | 128 |
| Regex Writing | 127 | 116 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 131 | 120 |
| Frontend Component Design | 133 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 138 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 132 |
| ETL Scripting | 141 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 120 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 118 | 117 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 135 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 135 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 152 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 112 |
| Blog Post Writing | 132 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →