Gemini 4 Carbon vs Qwen 2.5 Max
A direct, empirical evaluation of Gemini 4 Carbon (Google DeepMind) against Qwen 2.5 Max (Alibaba Cloud).
Gemini 4 Carbon
Developed by Google DeepMind · Carbon-Aware Frontier Transformer on TPU v6e parameters
Sub-watt green computing, 62% energy reduction per million tokens, carbon-aware datagrid routing, and eco-tier batch execution discounts.
Qwen 2.5 Max
Developed by Alibaba Cloud · Proprietary (~700B) parameters
Cross-lingual document extraction and structured structured output generation.
| Metric | Gemini 4 Carbon | Qwen 2.5 Max |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 69.2% | 51.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.6% | 77.2% |
| MATH-500 | 91.4% | 89.4% |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input Pricing (per 1M) | $0.80 | $1.60 |
| Output Pricing (per 1M) | $2.40 | $6.40 |