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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max and Gemini 3.1 Pro score 79.3% vs 76.8% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#11 and #16 of 68 models), so Qwen3.8 Max leads overall.

  • Qwen3.8 Max wins 4 of the 5 tasks, with its widest lead on counting (81.1% vs 71.6%).
  • Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper: $0.0080 vs $0.010 overall average cost per sample.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro is faster: 8.4s vs 18.9s per sample.

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3.8 Max on Vision Evals

Score by taskGemini 3.1 ProQwen3.8 Max
Identification
100.0
88.5
Counting
71.6
81.1
Object Detection
67.4
76.7
Reasoning
72.2
75.9
OCR
72.6
74.0

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3.8 Max Comparison Table

Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 11, 2026

PropertyGemini 3.1 ProQwen3.8 Max
OrganizationGoogleQwen
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateFeb 2026Aug 2026
Context Window1.0M984K
ParametersUnknown2.4T total, ~95B active
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termsfree for commercial use
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.00No published price
Output $/1M$12.00No published price
Vision Tasks
Both support 10 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
76.8%
79.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.010$0.0080
Avg speed / sample8.44s18.95s
By task
Object Detection (low)
67.4%
$0.010
76.7%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.5 to 77.1
$0.012
Object Detection (high)–
78.4%
±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 78.9
$0.030
Counting (low)
71.6%
$0.0071
81.1%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 82.4
$0.0046
Counting (high)–
81.1%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.1 to 81.1
$0.0091
Identification (low)
100.0%
$0.0070
88.5%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
$0.0027
Identification (high)–
89.6%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
$0.0037
OCR (low)
72.6%
$0.010
74.0%
$0.0077
by category
Single value
67.8%
Transcription
88.5%
Structured JSON
82.0%
Text localization
52.0%
Single value
63.9%
Transcription
95.2%
Structured JSON
85.4%
Text localization
59.0%
OCR (high)
73.1%
$0.026
71.8%
$0.028
by category
Single value
68.7%
Transcription
90.8%
Structured JSON
83.9%
Text localization
47.1%
Single value
61.7%
Transcription
94.8%
Structured JSON
81.6%
Text localization
59.6%
Reasoning (low)
72.2%
$0.012
75.9%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.5 to 77.5
$0.0048
Reasoning (high)
74.8%
$0.021
80.3%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.2 to 82.1
$0.011

Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Qwen3.8 Max: Overview

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro is a proprietary multimodal model from Google’s Gemini 3 series, released in early 2026 and designed for advanced reasoning across large multimodal datasets. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and documents, supporting up to a 1-million-token input context with up to 64k output tokens. Compared with Gemini 3 Pro, it improves long-context synthesis and multi-step reasoning, enabling more reliable analysis of large documents, datasets, and software codebases.

The model also advances visual understanding and grounding, allowing it to interpret UI screenshots, diagrams, and real-world scenes while referencing specific regions within images or video. These capabilities make Gemini 3.1 Pro well suited for multimodal workflows involving document processing, interface analysis, robotics research, and complex visual reasoning.

Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max is the flagship tier of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 family, a sparse mixture-of-experts multimodal model with roughly 2.4 trillion total parameters of which about 95 billion activate per token, which keeps serving cost and latency well below what the total parameter count would imply. It builds on the architectural foundation established by Qwen3.5 and accepts text, images, video, and documents as input while producing text output. Reported context handling reaches close to one million tokens, with a maximum generation length of 131,072 tokens, so the model is aimed at long-horizon agentic work such as repository-scale coding, multi-step research, data analysis, and office document workflows.

For vision work the model performs image and video understanding, document and chart interpretation, text recognition inside images, and grounded visual question answering, and Alibaba reports gains concentrated in multimodal and agentic evaluation categories rather than general reasoning. It is the first model in the Max tier of the Qwen line for which the team states weights will be released publicly, alongside a smaller Qwen3.8 27B checkpoint. No training or safety model card has been published.