Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) costs $0.46 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $3.50, so Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) is about 7.6 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,000,000 and 1,048,576 tokens, about 1,500 and 1,573 pages.

Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.8 Max (0902) leads 76.5 to 31.8.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) was released in September 2026 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) in July 2026.

Pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) if you need lower cost or audio input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.