vs
0:9
overall capability wins (0 ties across 9 scored). Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads overall.
- Reasoning0:4
- Coding0:2
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads coding (widest gap: +80.9 on TermBench); Qwen3.8 Flash Next offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 131K); Qwen3.8 Flash Next allows ~8.0x more max output (131K vs 16K).
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads coding (widest gap: +80.9 on TermBench)
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 131K)
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next allows ~8.0x more max output (131K vs 16K)
- Qwen3 32B is ~1.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than Qwen3.8 Flash Next
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3 32B
- $0.17
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next
- $0.27
Qwen3 32B is about 1.5x 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
16K
131K
Parameters
32B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.10
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.30
$0.47
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.15
$0.23
Speed
tok/s
100
77.3
TTFT (s)
0.25
2.79
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
66.8
92.3
Humanity's Last Exam
7.4
38.0
AIME 2025
72.9
—
MATH-500
97.2
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
17.4
24.5
AA-LCR v1.1
—
79.7
CritPt
0.3
11.1
MMMU-Pro
—
79.8
IFBench
36.3
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
65.7
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
5.2
86.1
Aider Polyglot
40.0
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
36.0
50.6
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
8.1
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,635
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,347
—
| Metric | Qwen3 32B | 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 | 16K | 131K | B +115K |
| Parameters | 32B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.10 | $0.15 | A +$0.05 |
| Output $/1M | $0.30 | $0.47 | A +$0.17 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.15 | $0.23 | A +$0.08 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 100 | 77.3 | A +23 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.25 | 2.79 | A +2.54 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 66.8 | 92.3 | B +25.5 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.4 | 38.0 | B +30.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 72.9 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 97.2 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 17.4 | 24.5 | B +7.1 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 79.7 | — |
| CritPt | 0.3 | 11.1 | B +10.8 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 79.8 | — |
| IFBench | 36.3 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 65.7 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 5.2 | 86.1 | B +80.9 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | 40.0 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 36.0 | 50.6 | B +14.6 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 8.1 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,635 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,347 | — | — |
Qwen3 32B
- Context
- 131K / 16K out
- Parameters
- 32B
- Price
- $0.10 / $0.30
- Speed
- 100 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Dense 32B open model that fits a single H100 - popular self-host coding choice.
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
Winner bars are emphasized. Per-benchmark deltas sit above each chart.