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Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·Google vs Alibaba

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview — Google
Quality
#4 of 65
93based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#66 of 356
110.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#426 of 504
$4.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.00 · Out $12.00
Cache hit price
#274 of 384
$0.20
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#61 of 550
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#6 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#132 of 356
78.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#355 of 504
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#328 of 384
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#187 of 550
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores 93 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93, which puts them level. They share 2 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview ahead on 2 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $4.50 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and $2.21 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is about 2.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 110 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 78 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 3.4s and 1.0s. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 1.00M.

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 4 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 93 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $4.50 $2.21
Output tok/s 110 78
Context window 1.05M 1.00M
Providers 2 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 93 93
Reasoning Index 91 —
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond94 / 91
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 96

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads on 2 of 2, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Text Arena 1,480 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,487 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $2.00 $1.48
Output $/1M $12.00 $4.42
Blended $/1M $4.50 $2.21
Cache read $/1M $0.200 $0.295
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 1.05M 1.00M
Max output tokens 66k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 110 78
Time to first token 3.4s 1.0s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

4 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
Google · first party $2.25 169 — —
Google AI Studio $2.25 108 — —
Alibaba · first party — — $2.21 93
AtlasCloud — — $3.75 33

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →