vs
1:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads overall.
- Coding0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs1:1
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads coding (widest gap: +397.1 on WebDev Elo); Qwen3.5 Flash offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K); Qwen3.8 Flash Next allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K).
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next leads coding (widest gap: +397.1 on WebDev Elo)
- Qwen3.5 Flash offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K)
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K)
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next ships open weights (Qwen Community License 1.0)
- Qwen3.5 Flash is ~2.0x 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.
- Qwen3.5 Flash
- $0.13
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next
- $0.27
Qwen3.5 Flash is about 2.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Proprietary
Qwen Community License 1.0
Open weights
No
Yes
Release
Mar 1, 2026
Aug 26, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Alibaba
Alibaba (QwenCloud)
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
262K
Max output
33K
131K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.07
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.26
$0.47
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.11
$0.23
Speed
tok/s
150
77.3
TTFT (s)
0.2
2.79
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
92.3
Humanity's Last Exam
—
38.0
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
24.5
AA-LCR v1.1
—
79.7
CritPt
—
11.1
MMMU-Pro
—
79.8
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
86.1
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
50.6
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,238
1,635
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,397
—
| Metric | Qwen3.5 Flash | Qwen3.8 Flash Next | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Proprietary | Qwen Community License 1.0 | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Mar 1, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Alibaba | Alibaba (QwenCloud) | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 262K | A +738K |
| Max output | 33K | 131K | B +98K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.07 | $0.15 | A +$0.08 |
| Output $/1M | $0.26 | $0.47 | A +$0.21 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.11 | $0.23 | A +$0.12 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 150 | 77.3 | A +73 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | 2.79 | A +2.59 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 92.3 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 38.0 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 24.5 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 79.7 | — |
| CritPt | — | 11.1 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 79.8 | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 86.1 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 50.6 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,238 | 1,635 | B +397 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,397 | — | — |
Qwen3.5 Flash
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.07 / $0.26
- Speed
- 150 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Low-cost Qwen3.5 API Flash tier with million-token context for high-volume Chinese/English chat.
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.