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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-06.

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	qwen	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	88.6	51.3
Input Price	$2.00/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$6.00/M	$1.25/M
Context Window	1,000,000	1,048,576
Max Output	131,072	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	77.4	45.5
ai_index_agentic	82.3	26.5
ai_index_coding	100.0	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	171	156
Code Review	165	152
Code Completion	119	132
Code Refactoring	163	152
Bug Fixing	180	160
Unit Test Generation	153	143
Code Documentation	141	138
Regex Writing	135	129
CI/CD Pipelines	144	134
Frontend Component Design	146	136
Data Analysis	170	150
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	148
ETL Scripting	153	143
JSON Extraction	139	144
Bulk Data Labeling	125	133
OCR / Document Parsing	146	141
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	141
Long-Document Summarization	158	150
Short-Form Summarization	122	128
Blog Post Writing	139	132

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