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Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Gemini 4 Hydrogen leads Qwen3.8 Max (0902) on coding, 77.9 to 67.3 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs 1.3x less per output token ($6.00 vs $7.50 per million). Updated November 14, 2026; 49 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Gemini 4 Hydrogen Replace Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Gemini 4 HydrogenGoogle
Coding
77.9
Overall
77.1
Output $/M
$7.50
44
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen
Coding
67.3
Overall
67.6
Output $/M
$6.00
5
vs boards won of 49 shared

Gemini 4 Hydrogen or Qwen3.8 Max (0902): which to pick

Pick Gemini 4 Hydrogen for coding: it scores 77.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 67.3 for Qwen3.8 Max (0902), though on 4 benchmarks against 5.

Pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) for output tokens 1.3x cheaper ($6.00 vs $7.50 per million) and work measured by Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) or LMArena Text: math, where it leads.

Model AGemini 4 HydrogenGoogle77.9/1004 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BQwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen67.3/1005 independent benchmarks$1.32 per solved task
Shared results
49
Gemini 4 Hydrogen only
1
Qwen3.8 Max (0902) only
79
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Gemini 4 Hydrogen 77.9 from 4 benchmarks, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 67.3 from 5 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 15.0 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run): Gemini 4 Hydrogen 66.0% against Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 29.5%, 36.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Gemini 4 Hydrogen $7.50 against Qwen3.8 Max (0902) $6.00 per million output tokens, 1.3x apart.
Context window
Gemini 4 Hydrogen takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 1M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGemini 4 HydrogenBarsQwen3.8 Max (0902)Ties
Coding100
Agentic work51
Reasoning60
Math11
Knowledge41
Web design50
General132
All shared boards445
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index100
Coding benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
LiveBench coding78.5%60.9%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena WebDev17041676Gemini 4 Hydrogen
AA Coding IndexNot measured76.2Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured87.8%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured85.6%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)54.0%38.9%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)87.8%77.1%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured24.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured68.9%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured67.4%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)Not measured42.5%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured24.8%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured42.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured28.6%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SciCodeNot measured53.2%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run)54.0%38.9%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
FrontierCode 2.039.0%23.4%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
FrontierSWENot measured17.8%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MirrorCodeNot measured52.2%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
ALE-BenchNot measured1679.1Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: coding15161502Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: software and IT15131500Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena WebDev: React17241698Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena WebDev: HTML17431654Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena WebDev: from an imageNot measured1638Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
GameBench 2Not measured69.6Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench 4.0Not measured27.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
CursorBench 4.057.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 4 Hydrogen measured
Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
Intelligence benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
AA Intelligence IndexNot measured33.7Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Epoch Capabilities IndexNot measured157.6Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
Agentic work benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured56.0Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1278Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1279Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1223Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1196Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot gamesNot measured1215Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1252Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: spreadsheetsNot measured1011Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench research86.8%72.8%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LiveBench browser77.1%49.4%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LiveBench long agentic61.8%26.6%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured57.9%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)52.3%49.7%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)53.8%47.6%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)11.3%15.4%Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured72.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)Not measured12.9%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
APEX-AgentsNot measured63.3%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena SearchNot measured1260Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
τ³-BankingNot measured55.2%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Reasoning benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
GPQA DiamondNot measured93.7%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench reasoning88.6%88.2%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)Not measured23.9%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured88.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured92.8%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured43.1%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
HLE-Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)58.8%24.0%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run)66.0%29.5%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured92.7%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Chess puzzlesNot measured46.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured38.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts15201499Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: expert15581510Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English15141505Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1321Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1335Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Math benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
OTIS Mock AIMENot measured100.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured74.7%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured46.3%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
ProofBenchNot measured58.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: math15071509Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
LMArena Text: mathematical work15341497Gemini 4 Hydrogen
MathArenaNot measured47.1%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
Knowledge benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
MMLU ProNot measured88.6%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured83.6%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured65.8%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured75.5%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured64.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured40.7%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
AA-Omniscience46.310.5Gemini 4 Hydrogen
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured47.3%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: science15191514Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14881514Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
LMArena Text: legal and government15321498Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: business and finance14861481Gemini 4 Hydrogen
FACTS Benchmark SuiteNot measured60.3%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Web design benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
Design Arena: websites13201269Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1335Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: game dev13691310Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1281Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Design Arena: 3D14151318Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: all code categories13331287Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1189Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LiveBench design77.3%76.6%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index132
General benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
Vals Index68.5%59.1%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LiveBench data analysis83.2%78.4%Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured67.1%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured81.8%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured85.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured65.4%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)Not measured80.3%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
GDPval-AANot measured1674Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
DTBenchNot measured92.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMCANot measured46.2%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Furniture assemblyNot measured20.0%Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text15021485Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: instruction following15191483Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: creative writing15091482Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena VisionNot measured1312Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: English14991494Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: non-English14951475Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: Chinese16311543Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: GermanNot measured1475Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: JapaneseNot measured1463Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: KoreanNot measured1455Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: French15121504Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: Spanish14941494Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
LMArena Text: Russian14921488Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1477Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn14851492Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
LMArena Text: longer queries15241493Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: writing and language15001480Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Text: entertainment and media15031470Gemini 4 Hydrogen
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1310Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1353Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1322Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1309Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1310Only Qwen3.8 Max (0902) measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
BenchmarkGemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemini 4 Hydrogen$0.0053Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)$0.0050Fits in one request

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 4 Hydrogen$0.098Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)$0.118Fits in one request

Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 4 Hydrogen$0.375Fits in one request
Qwen3.8 Max (0902)$0.460Fits in one request

Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)
SpecificationGoogle Gemini 4 HydrogenQwen3.8 Max (0902)
MakerGoogleQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedNovember 12, 2026September 3, 2026
Context window1.05M1M
Input $/Mtok$1.50$2.00
Output $/Mtok$7.50$6.00
Coding index77.967.3
Independent measurements behind it45
Cost per solved taskNot computable$1.32
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemini 4 Hydrogen better than Qwen3.8 Max (0902) for coding?

Pick Gemini 4 Hydrogen for coding: it scores 77.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 67.3 for Qwen3.8 Max (0902), though on 4 benchmarks against 5. Pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) for output tokens 1.3x cheaper ($6.00 vs $7.50 per million) and work measured by Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) or LMArena Text: math, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 4 Hydrogen or Qwen3.8 Max (0902)?

Gemini 4 Hydrogen costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $2.00 and $6.00. Cost per solved task is known for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) only.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 4 Hydrogen or Qwen3.8 Max (0902)?

Gemini 4 Hydrogen, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Qwen3.8 Max (0902) comparison based on?

49 benchmarks have a result for both models as of November 14, 2026. Gemini 4 Hydrogen's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.8 Max (0902)'s on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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