vs
0:6
overall capability wins (0 ties across 6 scored). Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads overall.
- Reasoning0:3
- Coding0:1
- Pricing0:3
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads coding (widest gap: +10.7 on SciCode); Qwen3.8 Flash Next offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 131K); Qwen3.8 Flash Next allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K).
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads coding (widest gap: +10.7 on SciCode)
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 131K)
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K)
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next is ~1.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Qwen3 235B-A22B
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3 235B-A22B
- $0.51
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next
- $0.27
Qwen3.8 Flash Next is about 1.9x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Apache 2.0
Qwen Community License 1.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Apr 29, 2025
Aug 26, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Alibaba (QwenCloud)
Modalities
text → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
131K
262K
Max output
33K
131K
Parameters
235B (22B act.)
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.85
$0.47
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.44
$0.23
Speed
tok/s
80
77.3
TTFT (s)
0.35
2.79
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
70.0
92.3
Humanity's Last Exam
11.0
38.0
AIME 2025
81.5
—
MATH-500
98.0
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
18.5
24.5
AA-LCR v1.1
—
79.7
CritPt
—
11.1
MMMU-Pro
—
79.8
IFBench
38.7
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
21.4
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
80.4
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
86.1
Aider Polyglot
59.6
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
39.9
50.6
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
18.5
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,635
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,375
—
| Metric | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.8 Flash Next | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Qwen Community License 1.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Apr 29, 2025 | Aug 26, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | Alibaba (QwenCloud) | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 131K | 262K | B +131K |
| Max output | 33K | 131K | B +98K |
| Parameters | 235B (22B act.) | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $0.15 | B +$0.15 |
| Output $/1M | $0.85 | $0.47 | B +$0.38 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.44 | $0.23 | B +$0.21 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 80 | 77.3 | A +2.70 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 2.79 | A +2.44 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.0 | 92.3 | B +22.3 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.0 | 38.0 | B +27.0 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 81.5 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 98.0 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 18.5 | 24.5 | B +6.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 79.7 | — |
| CritPt | — | 11.1 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 79.8 | — |
| IFBench | 38.7 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 21.4 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 80.4 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 86.1 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.6 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 39.9 | 50.6 | B +10.7 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 18.5 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,635 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,375 | — | — |
Qwen3 235B-A22B
- Context
- 131K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 235B (22B act.)
- Price
- $0.30 / $0.85
- Speed
- 80 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Widely used open Qwen3 MoE - strong multilingual and tool-use performance.
Qwen3.8 Flash Next
- Context
- 262K / 131K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.47
- Speed
- 77.3 tok/s · 2.79s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Qwen Community License 1.0
Open-weight sparse-MoE Flash tier (6B active) previewing the Qwen4 architecture, released Aug 26, 2026 — 262K native context extensible to ~1M with YaRN, tuned for cost efficiency at $0.15/$0.47 per 1M (cache-hit $0.016). Reported total parameter count varies by source (~125-180B). Benchmark figures are Alibaba's self-reported launch numbers (SWE-bench Pro 62.5, HLE 35.9); Artificial Analysis places it at 56 on its Intelligence Index.
Benchmark charts
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