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| Attribute | Qwen3 Coder Nextqwen3-coder-next | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | GPT-6 Astragpt-6-astra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.175 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Output | $1.40 / 1M | $3.75 / 1M | $50.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.175 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.175 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.175 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 262.1K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Alibaba | OpenAI | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model purpose-built for coding agents and local development workflows. It employs a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per token, achieving performance comparable to models with 10–20× higher active compute. This efficiency makes it especially well suited for cost-sensitive, always-on agent deployments. Trained with a strong agentic focus, Qwen3-Coder-Next performs reliably on long-horizon coding tasks, complex tool interactions, and robust recovery from execution failures. With a native 256K context window, it integrates smoothly into real-world CLI and IDE environments and aligns well with common agent scaffolding used by modern coding tools. The model operates exclusively in non-thinking mode and does not emit <think> blocks, simplifying production integration for coding agents. | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end professional work, designed for advanced analysis, software engineering, deep research, scientific tasks, and document creation. It is particularly strong in long-horizon agentic workflows, including tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool orchestration, and computer and browser use, making it well suited for complex autonomous workflows and production-grade knowledge work. |