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Gemini 4 Argon vs Qwen3.8 Max API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Qwen3.8 Max costs $0.00449 per request and Gemini 4 Argon costs $0.007, so Qwen3.8 Max is about 1.6× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Gemini 4 Argon ranks #3 and Qwen3.8 Max ranks #14.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

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Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensGemini 4 ArgonQwen3.8 Max
Input$2$1.79List ¥12
Output$10$5.38List ¥36
Cached input$0.1—
ProviderGoogleAlibaba
Release date2026-09-302026-07-19
Overall rank#3#14
Coding rank#13#14
Reasoning rank—#16
Knowledge rank#1—
Professional work rank#1#11
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageGemini 4 ArgonQwen3.8 MaxDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.007$7 per 1,000$0.00449$4.49 per 1,000Qwen3.8 Max is 1.6× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.22$220 per 1,000$0.19$190.24 per 1,000Qwen3.8 Max is 1.2× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$1.5$1,500 per 1,000$1.17$1,166.58 per 1,000Qwen3.8 Max is 1.3× cheaper

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