# Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3 8 27B

As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Qwen3 8 27B in 4 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, and Factuality.

Gemini 3 Pro: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Qwen3 8 27B: $0.73 per 1M blended tokens.

Gemini 3 Pro: closed weights.

Qwen3 8 27B: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Qwen3 8 27B in General LLM at #16 against #90.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Qwen3 8 27B in Reasoning at #23 against #84.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 8 27B leads Gemini 3 Pro in Coding › Web dev at #26 against #65.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Qwen3 8 27B in Long context at #24 against #92.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Qwen3 8 27B in Factuality at #10 against #86.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Nov 17, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 8 27B is tied for state of the art in Reasoning (since Oct 8, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).