Qwen3.8-27B vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
27.8 B
Context
—
30d
7.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$1.50
Output / 1M
$9.00
AA index
33.6
proprietary · 1M context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.8-27B Gemini 3.5 Flash
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 27.8 B n/a — API-only
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration n/a — API-only
Context length 262,144 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 Proprietary
Commercial use Allowed Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 7,710,011 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 17.7 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-05 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.20 $1.50
API output price / 1M tokens $2.50 $9.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $2.70 $10.50
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.09 $0.15
AA Intelligence Index 33.7 33.6
AA Coding Index 68.1 —
AA Agentic Index 45.8 —
Max output tokens 235,929 65,536
API providers 21 2
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3.8-27B $2.70
Gemini 3.5 Flash $10.50

Qwen3.8-27B is 3.9× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.8-27B · fp16 65.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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