If the performances are comparable, and there is no evidence it's not.

in/out ($) Gemini : 1.5 / 9.0 | Qwen 3.8: 0.15 / 0.47

That is a massive cost reduction.

Refs: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pric... https://runware.ai/gemini-omni