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Qwen 3.8 Max vs Gemini 4 Argon

Both are SOTA right now. Each row below is one board’s call on the two, and the marked figure is the one that board places higher. No row is added to another, so there is no overall winner: the boards measure different things, and where they split, that is the finding.

Board Qwen 3.8 Max Gemini 4 Argon
Artificial Analysis LLM Leaderboard Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 45.4 No. 14 of 372 52.6 No. 5 of 372
Arena — Agent Overall 0.025 No. 23 of 49 0.076 No. 10 of 49
Artificial Analysis Coding Agents Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index 0.433 No. 17 of 22 0.638 No. 3 of 22
Arena — Code Overall 1671 No. 10 of 109 1680 No. 9 of 109
Arena — Text Overall (style control) 1482 No. 23 of 306 1525 No. 1 of 306
Arena — Vision Overall (style control) 1301 No. 2 of 128 —

Each rank is the board’s own: the rank it publishes, or its place in its own order where it publishes none. The bar is how much of that board the model is ahead of. Scores from different boards cannot be compared.

At a glance

Developer Alibaba Google
Weights open closed
Released 2026-08-03—
Price Blended Price, USD per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output) $3.00$4.00
Value: where it sits on the kill line SOTA SOTA

Qwen 3.8 Max →Gemini 4 Argon → How the kill line is drawn →

Qwen 3.8 Max against the other SOTA models

Gemini 4 Argon against the other SOTA models