As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3-Coder is 82% cheaper per million tokens than Gemini 1.0 Pro. Gemini 1.0 Pro is $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens versus Qwen3-Coder at $0.18 / $0.18. Sources: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/
Sources: Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing); Qwen pricing (https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/)
Gemini 1.0 Pro
Input
$0.50
Output
$1.50
Qwen3-Coder
Qwen
Input
$0.18
Output
$0.18
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Gemini 1.0 ProQwen3-CoderVerdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless Gemini 1.0 Pro's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3-Coder is 82% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Qwen3-Coder costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens ($0.36 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Gemini 1.0 Pro costs $0.50 / $1.50 per million tokens ($2.00 blended). Sources: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Gemini 1.0 Pro Gemini API pricing is $0.50 input and $1.50 output per million tokens via Google. Qwen3-Coder Qwen API pricing is $0.18 input and $0.18 output per million tokens via Qwen. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Neither Gemini 1.0 Pro nor Qwen3-Coder has a published SWE-bench or LiveCodeBench score on this page yet. Use the comparison table for the evals that do exist.
Gemini 1.0 Pro supports a 33K token context window, while Qwen3-Coder supports 256K tokens. Qwen3-Coder offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Shared benchmark scores for Gemini 1.0 Pro and Qwen3-Coder are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Gemini 1.0 Pro and Qwen3-Coder are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Qwen3-Coder has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Gemini 1.0 Pro through Google and Qwen3-Coder through Qwen with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Gemini API pricing and Qwen API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Gemini 1.0 Pro supports up to 8K output tokens per request, while Qwen3-Coder supports up to 256K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Gemini 1.0 Pro has a measured throughput of approximately 120 tokens/second. Throughput data for Qwen3-Coder is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Gemini 1.0 Pro or Qwen3-Coder from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Gemini 1.0 Pro costs $0.50/M input and $1.50/M output. Qwen3-Coder costs $0.18/M input and $0.18/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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