vs
0:3
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Qwen3.8 Max 0902 leads overall.
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max 0902 offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K); Qwen3.8 Max 0902 allows ~1.6x more max output (131K vs 82K); Qwen3.6 35B A3B ships open weights (Apache 2.0).
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902 offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K)
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902 allows ~1.6x more max output (131K vs 82K)
- Qwen3.6 35B A3B ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3.6 35B A3B
- -
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902
- $3.50
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Apache 2.0
Proprietary
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Apr 16, 2026
Sep 2, 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
35B (3B act.)
2.4T (95B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
—
$2
Output $/1M
—
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
-
$3
Speed
tok/s
-
-
TTFT (s)
-
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
84.1
—
Humanity's Last Exam
22.2
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
18.8
—
AA-LCR v1.1
71.7
—
CritPt
0.3
—
MMMU-Pro
75.0
—
IFBench
64.4
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
44.9
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
36.6
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,681
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Qwen3.8 Max 0902 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Apr 16, 2026 | Sep 2, 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 | 35B (3B act.) | 2.4T (95B act.) | B +2K |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | — | $2 | — |
| Output $/1M | — | $6 | — |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | - | $3 | — |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 84.1 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 22.2 | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 18.8 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 71.7 | — | — |
| CritPt | 0.3 | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 75.0 | — | — |
| IFBench | 64.4 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 44.9 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 36.6 | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,681 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
- Context
- 262K / 82K out
- Parameters
- 35B (3B act.)
- Price
- —
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Efficient Qwen3.6 MoE sibling to Qwen3.6-27B (35B total / 3B active) — same 262K native context and multimodal input, Apache 2.0.
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.
Benchmark charts
Winner bars are emphasized. Per-benchmark deltas sit above each chart.
These two models have no overlapping published benchmarks in our dataset. Compare specs and pricing instead.