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| Attribute | Qwen3.8 27Bqwen3.8-27b | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Google Vertex AI)gemini-3.1-flash-image-vertex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.45 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | — |
| Output | $3.20 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.45 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.45 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Cache Read | $0.45 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | — |
| Request | — | — | $0.067 / request |
| Billing | — | — | Pay Per Request |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 262K | 1M | N/A |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | No |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | No |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | No |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Alibaba | ||
| Category | chat | chat | image |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay Per Request |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen, designed for coding, professional knowledge work, research, and multimodal interaction. It combines strong text and visual understanding with capabilities optimized for sustained, real-world agentic tasks. The model supports flexible thinking modes that can be enabled for deeper reasoning or disabled for faster execution, making it well suited for long-running agents, multimodal workflows, coding assistants, and cost-conscious self-hosted deployments. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image served from Google Vertex AI. Billed per image at US$0.067. Call it through /v1/chat/completions with stream set to false; the image is returned in the message content as a base64 data URI. Maximum output resolution is 2K. A request for a larger size, such as 4K or 4096x4096, returns a 2K image with the same aspect ratio at the same price. When a size is reduced, the response carries an X-Image-Resolution-Capped header with the requested and delivered size, for example 4096x4096->2048x2048. |