vs
0:3
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Qwen3.8 Max 0902 leads overall.
- Pricing3:0
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max 0902 offers ~7.6x larger context (1M vs 131K); Qwen3.8 Max 0902 allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K); Qwen3 235B-A22B ships open weights (Apache 2.0).
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902 offers ~7.6x larger context (1M vs 131K)
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902 allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B is ~6.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Qwen3.8 Max 0902
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3 235B-A22B
- $0.51
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902
- $3.50
Qwen3 235B-A22B is about 6.8x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Apache 2.0
Proprietary
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Apr 29, 2025
Sep 2, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Alibaba Cloud
Modalities
text → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
131K
1M
Max output
33K
131K
Parameters
235B (22B act.)
2.4T (95B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$2
Output $/1M
$0.85
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.44
$3
Speed
tok/s
80
-
TTFT (s)
0.35
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
70.0
—
Humanity's Last Exam
11.0
—
AIME 2025
81.5
—
MATH-500
98.0
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
18.5
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
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
—
—
Aider Polyglot
59.6
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
39.9
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
18.5
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,681
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,375
—
| Metric | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.8 Max 0902 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Apr 29, 2025 | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | Alibaba Cloud | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 131K | 1M | B +869K |
| Max output | 33K | 131K | B +98K |
| Parameters | 235B (22B act.) | 2.4T (95B act.) | B +2K |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $2 | A +$1.70 |
| Output $/1M | $0.85 | $6 | A +$5.15 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.44 | $3 | A +$2.56 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 80 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.0 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.0 | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 81.5 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 98.0 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 18.5 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| 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 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.6 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 39.9 | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 18.5 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,681 | — |
| 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 Max 0902
- Context
- 1M / 131K out
- Parameters
- 2.4T (95B act.)
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
September 2, 2026 hosted post-training snapshot of Qwen3.8-Max, further trained for coding and workplace/agent workflows. Same 2.4T MoE / 95B active architecture, 1M multimodal context, and $2/$6 QwenCloud pricing as the August 3 Max release. Arena Code/WebDev listed qwen3.8-max-0902 at 1688 (preliminary) on the Sep 2, 2026 snapshot.
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