qwen3.8-max vs gemini-2.5-pro
Side-by-side comparison of qwen3.8-max and gemini-2.5-pro: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. qwen3.8-max outperforms gemini-2.5-pro on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks.
qwen3.8-max
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$6.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
gemini-2.5-pro
Input / 1M
$1.25
Output / 1M
$10.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
google/gemini-2.5-pro
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
qwen3.8-max46.9%
gemini-2.5-pro19.0%
Coding Indexcoding
qwen3.8-max71.8%
gemini-2.5-pro33.3%
Math Indexmath
qwen3.8-maxN/A
gemini-2.5-pro87.7%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
qwen3.8-max92.7%
gemini-2.5-pro84.4%
AIME 2025math
qwen3.8-maxN/A
gemini-2.5-pro87.7%
LiveCodeBenchcoding
qwen3.8-maxN/A
gemini-2.5-pro80.1%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
qwen3.8-maxN/A
gemini-2.5-pro26.5%
τ²-Benchagentic
qwen3.8-maxN/A
gemini-2.5-pro54.1%
SciCodecoding
qwen3.8-max53.2%
gemini-2.5-proN/A
MMLU Proknowledge
qwen3.8-maxN/A
gemini-2.5-pro86.2%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
qwen3.8-max43.0%
gemini-2.5-pro22.5%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| qwen3.8-max | gemini-2.5-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $2.00 | $1.25 |
| Output price / 1M | $6.00 | $10.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | 131K tokens | 66K tokens |
| Vision input | N/A | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | N/A | N/A |
| Provider | Alibaba Cloud | Google LLC (Gemini API) |
Questions people ask
Is qwen3.8-max better than gemini-2.5-pro?
qwen3.8-max outperforms gemini-2.5-pro on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: qwen3.8-max and gemini-2.5-pro have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, qwen3.8-max or gemini-2.5-pro?
qwen3.8-max is cheaper. qwen3.8-max costs $2.00/$6.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while gemini-2.5-pro costs $1.25/$10.00.
Can I use qwen3.8-max and gemini-2.5-pro through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "alibaba/qwen3.8-max" and "google/gemini-2.5-pro", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
qwen3.8-max supports up to 1.0M tokens of context. gemini-2.5-pro supports up to 1.0M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between qwen3.8-max and gemini-2.5-pro with one line of code
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