Compare Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite from Google and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Qwen3.8 Max Previewgemini-3.1-flash-lite is currently Google's latest and most cost-effective model, optimized for large-scale agent-based tasks, translation, and simple data processing.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: $1.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 1457 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 0.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 81.4 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, deep search and long context; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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