vs
0:12
overall capability wins (0 ties across 12 scored). Qwen3.8 Max leads overall.
- Reasoning0:6
- Coding0:2
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max leads coding (widest gap: +20.6 on TermBench); Qwen3.8 Max offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K); Qwen3.8 Max allows ~1.6x more max output (131K vs 82K).
- Qwen3.8 Max leads coding (widest gap: +20.6 on TermBench)
- Qwen3.8 Max offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K)
- Qwen3.8 Max allows ~1.6x more max output (131K vs 82K)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3.6 27B
- -
- Qwen3.8 Max
- $3.50
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Apache 2.0
Qwen3.8-Max License
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Apr 22, 2026
Aug 3, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
No primary API price listed
Alibaba Cloud
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
262K
1M
Max output
82K
131K
Parameters
27B
2.4T (95B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
—
$2
Output $/1M
—
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
-
$3
Speed
tok/s
-
86
TTFT (s)
-
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
84.2
92.8
Humanity's Last Exam
23.1
43.1
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
19.6
31.7
AA-LCR v1.1
77.3
80.3
CritPt
1.1
17.7
MMMU-Pro
74.6
82.8
IFBench
67.6
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
67.7
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
60.7
81.3
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
42.8
52.1
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
55.9
DeepSWE
—
56.6
WebDev Arena
—
1,671
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,481
| Metric | Qwen3.6 27B | Qwen3.8 Max | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Qwen3.8-Max License | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Apr 22, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | No primary API price listed | Alibaba Cloud | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 262K | 1M | B +738K |
| Max output | 82K | 131K | B +49K |
| Parameters | 27B | 2.4T (95B act.) | B +2K |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | — | $2 | — |
| Output $/1M | — | $6 | — |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | - | $3 | — |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | 86 | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | 0.4 | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 84.2 | 92.8 | B +8.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 23.1 | 43.1 | B +20.0 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 19.6 | 31.7 | B +12.1 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 77.3 | 80.3 | B +3.0 pts |
| CritPt | 1.1 | 17.7 | B +16.6 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 74.6 | 82.8 | B +8.2 pts |
| IFBench | 67.6 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 67.7 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 60.7 | 81.3 | B +20.6 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 42.8 | 52.1 | B +9.3 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | 55.9 | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 56.6 | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,671 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,481 | — |
Qwen3.6 27B
- Context
- 262K / 82K out
- Parameters
- 27B
- Price
- —
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Alibaba's first open-weight Qwen3.6 release — dense 27B model with native 262K context and multimodal (text/image/video) input, Apache 2.0.
Qwen3.8 Max
- Context
- 1M / 131K out
- Parameters
- 2.4T (95B act.)
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 86 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Qwen3.8-Max License
Alibaba's Aug 2026 Max flagship (2.4T MoE / 95B active) — frontier agentic coding via QwenCloud / DashScope with 1M multimodal context and $2/$6 API pricing. Open weights released Aug 12, 2026 as Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (text-only, thinking-mandatory, Qwen3.8-Max license); the hosted version adds vision input, non-thinking mode, and built-in tools.
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