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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

SpecGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.8-Flash-Next
Respan Index44.4 (#48)44.3 (#50)
Blended price per 1M$0.75-
Context window1.0M1M
Input / output per 1M$0.375 / $1.88-
Max output66K-
Inputtext, vision, audiotext, vision
Released2026-07-21-

Respan Index by category

Each category is scored 0 to 100, and how far ahead the winner is. Leads under a point are close to even.

CategoryGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.8-Flash-Next
Coding18.1 Gemini 3.6 Flash25.7 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Agents57.3 Gemini 3.6 Flash56.1 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Reasoning43.4 Gemini 3.6 Flash43.3 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Knowledge & language65.3 Gemini 3.6 Flash44.9 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Human preference54.5 Gemini 3.6 Flash56.7 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

How the Respan Index works

Benchmarks both report

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next leads on 6 of the 10 benchmarks both report. Higher is better. Each score links to where it was published.

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.8-Flash-Next
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)15381628
LMArena Agent (LMArena)-0.0445-0.0402
GPQA Diamond94.1%91.7%
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)43.4%61.6%
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)77.9%72.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)63%74.2%
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.4%77.1%
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)83.9%74.6%
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)86.4%85.8%
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)85.1%87.4%

FAQ

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 44.4 on the Respan Index (#48), ahead of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 44.3 (#50). Qwen3.8-Flash-Next leads on 6 of the 10 benchmarks both report.

Which has the larger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts 1.0M tokens and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 1M tokens.

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