Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Qwen3 Max
List-price comparison · Gemini 3.5 Flash details · Qwen3 Max details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3 Max costs 54% less — $249.60/mo vs $540.00/mo.
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Qwen3 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.50 | $0.780 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $9.00 | $3.90 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0054 | $0.0025 |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 65,536 tokens | 32,768 tokens |
| Tier | Flash | Balanced |
| Provider | Qwen |
Projected monthly cost
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Fast, cheap multi-modal model with the same 1M-token context as the Pro tier — good for high-volume document Q&A and image/audio triage.
Reasoning quality trails the Pro tier on complex, multi-step tasks; best used where speed and context size matter more than depth.
Qwen3 Max
Strong multilingual reasoning (especially Chinese/English) and competitive coding benchmarks at open-weight pricing.
Cache-write pricing is unusually high relative to input cost — workloads that rely heavily on prompt caching should benchmark actual savings.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.