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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Qwen3.8 Flash does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Qwen3.8 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.8 Flash in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3.8 Flash leads 31.3 to 24.7.
  • Qwen3.8 Flash is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.47 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.235.5
Released2026-05-192026-08-26
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1M
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$9$0.47
Results tracked541

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Qwen3.8 Flash: 31.3

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
GDP.pdf14%16.6%
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1504—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1495—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
LMArena Non-English1476—
LMArena Chinese1526—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1492—
LMArena Japanese1486—
LMArena Korean1451—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1480—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Qwen3.8 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3.8 Flash
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3.8 Flash?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Qwen3.8 Flash does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Qwen3.8 Flash?

Qwen3.8 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Qwen3.8 Flash share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Flash has 1.

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