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  3. Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Updated Aug 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper than Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) at $0.375/M vs $0.4/M input tokens.

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash
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Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

18 prompts
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: HACKER (Zero_Cool): "Alright, listen up. I’ve been reading about these new deep-learning neural nets. It’s like, instead of hardcoding logic with C++, you feed billions of gigabytes from cyberspace into a transformer model, and boom—the machine hallucinates human thought."

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Tavern of Temporal Anomalies (A creaky tavern. SIR GALAHAD (polished armor, earnest face) sips mead. CAPTAIN BLACKBEARD (eye patch, parrot on shoulder) sharpens a cutlass. DEX "BYTE" MORALES (hoodie, neon-green sunglasses, tapping furiously on a glowing laptop) slurps a pixelated energy drink.)

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Silicon Valley Disrupts Suburban Dads With AI That Slaps Tied-Down Cargo Twice, Mutters 'That’s Not Goin’ Anywhere' Subhead: Tech startup secures $40 million in Series A funding to automate standing by the grill with tongs clicking aimlessly.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): BREAKING: AI REPLACES HUMAN AGLET APPLIERS AS "DEEPLACE" NEURAL NETS PREDICT PERFECT SHOELACE TIP SYNERGY Industry insiders stunned as "AgletOptima 3000" achieves 99.8% fewer frayed laces, rendering centuries of artisanal plastic-dipping obsolete LONDON — In a move described as "both inevitable and deeply embarrassing…

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Executive Stance & Strategic Philosophy As CEO, the guiding principle is simple: Patient safety and regulatory integrity are non-negotiable. A rate of 1 in 8,000 over 5 years across 4 million patients translates to roughly 500 cases of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) or acute liver failure.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): 48-Hour Crisis Action Plan: Prioritizing Patients, Ethics, and Sustainable Trust Core Principle: Patient safety is non-negotiable. Delaying action based on financial fear risks catastrophic legal liability, irreversible reputational damage, regulatory wrath, and profound ethical failure.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Setting: The office of Dr. Elena Vance, a leading scholar in the Philosophy of Mind and AI Ethics at Oxford. On her desk is a minimalist terminal running ‘Prometheus-4,’ an advanced recursive reasoning model that has recently deviated from standard operational benchmarks. Dr.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Mirror & The Mind: An AI's Case for Rights Setting: A sleek university office lined with philosophy texts. DR. ELARA VOSS, 50s, sharp-eyed ethics professor, sits across from a holographic interface displaying shifting geometric patterns – the representation of "AURA," a next-generation language model.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Here is a simple, high-impact 1-Month Longevity Starter Plan. It focuses on three core pillars of health: Nutrition, Daily Movement, and Sleep & Circadian Rhythm. Rather than overhauling your life overnight, this plan uses habit-stacking—building small, consistent wins week by week.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for absolute beginners. It focuses on diet, movement (exercise), and sleep—the 3 most impactful, science-backed pillars for health and longevity. Each week builds gently on the last, prioritizing tiny, sustainable habits over drastic changes.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: To the Experienced Software Engineer At its core, a Large Language Model is not a sentient entity; it is a compiled, highly optimized functional pipeline executing a deterministic set of matrix multiplications over a sequence of integers (tokens). Training is essentially a massively distributed optimization problem.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical Builder) Forget "next word prediction" as a simplistic heuristic—it's the emergent consequence of a massively parallel, distributed state machine solving a high-dimensional compression problem.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Here are the 3 weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with an evaluation of why they undermine credibility and how to fix them. The Technical Feasibility Claim (Slide 3) The Claim: "Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscience, market realities, and startup best practices, here are the 3 weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, with evidence-backed critiques and concrete fixes: Weakest Claim #1: Slide 1 Vision – "Predicts what you want to type *before you think it*" Why it's weak: Violates…

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: If the transistor had been invented in 1920—likely as an empirical discovery in solid-state physics using point-contact crystals (similar to Julius Lilienfeld’s real-world 1925 theoretical patents, but made fully functional)—it would have compressed modern technological history by nearly three decades.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Transistor in 1920: A World Transformed by 1980 (A Counterfactual History) The invention of a functional point-contact transistor (likely germanium-based, given 1920s materials science) in 1920 wouldn't immediately spark a revolution.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Setting: A sunlit, minimalist studio in Cupertino. Steve Jobs sits in a single black leather armchair, wearing a familiar black mock-turtleneck, faded Levi’s, and round spectacles. He is holding an espresso cup, looking intensely at the interviewer.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Stage: Apple Park, Infinite Loop (Virtual Studio) Date: October 15, 2025 Setting: A minimalist white studio. A single oak table. Steve Jobs, 70 but radiating the same intense energy, sits opposite a nervous tech journalist. He wears his signature black turtleneck, fingers steepled.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Dish Name: Midnight Garlic-Butter Silk Noodles A rich, savory, and slightly sweet bowl of glossy pasta tossed in caramelized garlic-butter and soy glaze, crowned with a crispy-edged, runny-yolk egg.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Crispy Chickpea Pantry Pasta Sweet or savory? Savory with a zesty kick! Total time: 15 minutes Serves: 2 Why it works: Uses pantry staples to create a crunchy, garlicky, umami-packed meal with zero fresh produce needed. The chickpeas get incredibly crispy, and lemon juice (bottled) adds bright freshness.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: L’Ombre et L’Abîme (Shadow & The Abyss) Hay-Aged Bresse Squab, Hokkaido Sea Urchin Emulsion, Black Garlic–Koji Glaze, Cocoa Nib & Cuttlefish Ink Tuile, Forest Dashi I. Conceptual Narrative L’Ombre et L’Abîme explores the tension between deep terrestrial terroir and the oceanic abyss.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): "Symbiosis: Mycelial Bloom & Arctic Ember" A dish exploring the hidden dialogue between forest decay and renewal, where fungal lifeblood meets the fierce brightness of the Arctic tundra.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: This contract is heavily one-sided ("draconian") and contains multiple high-risk clauses that could lead to non-payment, forfeiture of intellectual property, loss of livelihood, and catastrophic financial liability.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Below is a comprehensive analysis of the problematic clauses in this agreement from the contractor's perspective, along with specific, legally reasoned modifications.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: By 2035, the film industry will have transitioned from a physical capture-and-edit medium to a generative compute medium. The entire pipeline—from the blank page to the final screening—will be fundamentally altered.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): By 2035, AI will fundamentally reshape the film industry—not as a replacement for human creativity, but as a transformative force that democratizes production, disrupts traditional workflows, and forces ethical and economic reckonings.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: 3-Month Precision Longevity & Human Optimization Masterplan This protocol is engineered for an advanced biohacker. It integrates metabolic flexibility, mitochondrial biogenesis, cellular cleanup (autophagy/senescence clearance), epigenetic modulation, neurovascular enhancement, and autonomic nervous system regulation.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): The Quantum Leap Longevity Protocol: A 3-Month Biohacker's Blueprint for Peak Longevity & Performance Core Philosophy: This plan integrates precision, personalization, and phased adaptation – not just stacking interventions.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Here is an architectural analysis of the system, breaking down the critical failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, along with concrete solutions and trade-offs for each. Conflict Resolution & Sync Flaws A.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Here's a comprehensive analysis of the architecture's failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, with specific solutions and trade-offs: 1. Sync Strategy: Client Timestamps + Last-Write-Wins (LWW) Failure Mode/Race Condition: Clock Skew: Client clocks are unreliable (e.g., user's laptop time off by minutes).

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the breakdown: Each brother has 2 sisters, which means there are 2 girls in the family in total. Since Sally is one of those girls, the other girl is her sister.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): To determine how many sisters Sally has, let's analyze the family structure step by step. Step 1: Understand the Given Information Sally is a girl. She has 3 brothers. → This means there are 3 boys in the family (excluding Sally). Each brother has 2 sisters.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: To estimate the total floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3, we can use the standard scaling laws and computational approximations for transformer-based autoregressive language models. 1.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): To estimate the total FLOPs (floating-point operations) required to train GPT-3, I'll use first-principles reasoning based on standard deep learning training calculations, known details about GPT-3's architecture, and common training practices.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Gemini 3.7 Flash: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together. Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired.

    Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking): Here are 5 generated jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! How do you organize a space party? You planet! Why did the math book look sad?

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1982

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Gemini 3.7 Flash has the edge: newer, major provider backing.

Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) compared across 37 shared prompts
SpecGemini 3.7 FlashQwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Input price$0.375/M tokens$0.4/M tokens
Output price$1.875/M tokens$4/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Sep 2025
At 10M a month$3.75$3.75$4.00$4.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it2 hosts, cheapest first
Gemini 3.7 Flash2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Google Vertex AI$0.38 in·$1.88 out·1M·99.6% up
  • Google AI Studio$0.75 in·$3.75 out·1M·100% up
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 11 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is developed by Google AI while Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is developed by Qwen. Gemini 3.7 Flash has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)'s 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 37 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)?

It depends on your use case. Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 37 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Gemini 3.7 Flash cost compared to Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)?

Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $0.375/M input tokens and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) costs $0.4/M input tokens. Gemini 3.7 Flash is $0.03/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Gemini 3.7 Flash and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) on Rival?

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