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Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	qwen	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	55.6	34.2
Input Price	Free	$0.15/M
Output Price	Free	$1.25/M
Context Window	262,144	1,048,576
Max Output	235,929	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	55.6	36.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	137	138
Code Review	137	139
Code Completion	130	132
Code Refactoring	136	141
Bug Fixing	141	143
Unit Test Generation	127	128
Code Documentation	131	135
Regex Writing	125	123
CI/CD Pipelines	123	124
Frontend Component Design	128	126
Data Analysis	132	129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	130	135
ETL Scripting	130	133
JSON Extraction	132	131
Bulk Data Labeling	130	129
OCR / Document Parsing	131	132
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	132
Long-Document Summarization	138	143
Short-Form Summarization	126	125
Blog Post Writing	125	126

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →