Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 737.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $1.25 cheaper per million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released by Google in June 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family optimized for high-throughput, cost-efficient deployments with multimodal reasoning. It features a 1M token context window, hybrid thinking control, and native support for text, image, video, and audio input. Gemini 2.5 Flash targets latency-sensitive applications, document analysis, and high-volume API workloads that benefit from combined reasoning and generation in a single model.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Qwen3-Max
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Qwen3-Max
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Qwen3-Max
OpenRouter