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Gemini 4 Argon vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Gemini 4 Argon from Google and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Gemini 4 Argon
Google · text, image, video, audio, pdf → text

Gemini 4 Argon is Google DeepMind’s multimodal reasoning model for complex software engineering, financial research, legal drafting, and cybersecurity defense. It supports sustained reasoning across long, multi-step workflows, combining coding capabilities with chart and long-video understanding. It can also autonomously discover, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities.

Input$2 /M
Output$10 /M
Cache read$0.1 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Gemini 4 Argon
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$2
$1.69
Output /M
$10
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.1
$0.169
Context length
1,048,576
1,000,000
Max output
65,536
131,072
Time to First Token
14.3 s
13.8 s
Throughput
903.1 tok/s
31.3 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideoaudiopdf
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
gemini-4-argonqwen3.8-max
14401480152015601600
Overall
14821520
Coding
15251550
Math
15031532
Hard prompts
15041544
Instruction following
14751525
Multi-turn
14941539
Creative writing
14691517
Longer query
14921539
Chinese
15381579
English
14921523
WebDev Arena
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1580164017001760
Overall
16721679
React
16821694
HTML
16261667
Gaming
17371777
Simulations
16741733
Data analytics
16121615

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Gemini 4 Argon
$270 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 4 Argon, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; Gemini 4 Argon: $10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Gemini 4 Argon: 1550; Qwen3.8 Max: 1525 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.8 Max: 13.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Gemini 4 Argon accepts 1,048,576 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 4 Argon and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 4 Argon at 903.1 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 31.3 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Gemini 4 Argon accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Gemini 4 Argon and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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