Verdict
Qwen 3.8 Max leads 3–2 across 5 shared benchmarks.
Gemini 3 Pro 2 · Qwen 3.8 Max 3 · higher isn't always better — check the caveats below.
Reported scores — protocols may differ. How we compare
Reasoning: Evenly split 1–1 across 2 shared reasoning benchmarks (largest gap: SimpleQA Verified, 72.9 vs 46.29 — single evaluator).
Vendor claims — compare against the measured scores above. A claim is what a developer says about its own model, not an independent measurement.
Context Handling
“state-of-the-art reasoning, vision and spatial understanding, leading multilingual performance, and 1 million-token context window”
Multimodal
“It's the best model in the world for multimodal understanding and our most powerful agentic and vibe coding model yet”
Reasoning
“It's state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance”
No vendor claims on file for Qwen 3.8 Max.
Qwen 3.8 Max leads 3–2 across 5 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro leads 2 benchmarks and Qwen 3.8 Max leads 3. Higher isn't always better — see the integrity caveats on each benchmark.
Gemini 3 Pro and Qwen 3.8 Max have 5 benchmarks in common in our data — those are the only rows where a direct, apples-to-apples comparison is drawn.