vs
0:12
overall capability wins (1 ties across 13 scored). Qwen3.8 Max leads overall.
- Reasoning0:6
- Coding0:3
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max leads coding (widest gap: +210.1 on WebDev Elo); Qwen3.8 Max ranks higher on LMArena (+37 Elo); Qwen3.8 Max allows ~2.0x more max output (131K vs 66K).
- Qwen3.8 Max leads coding (widest gap: +210.1 on WebDev Elo)
- Qwen3.8 Max ranks higher on LMArena (+37 Elo)
- Qwen3.8 Max allows ~2.0x more max output (131K vs 66K)
- Qwen3.8 Max ships open weights (Qwen3.8-Max License)
- Qwen3.6 Plus is ~2.7x cheaper on a blended token basis than Qwen3.8 Max
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3.6 Plus
- $1.25
- Qwen3.8 Max
- $3.50
Qwen3.6 Plus is about 2.8x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Proprietary
Qwen3.8-Max License
Open weights
No
Yes
Release
Apr 2, 2026
Aug 3, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
66K
131K
Parameters
—
2.4T (95B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.50
$2
Output $/1M
$3
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$1.13
$3
Speed
tok/s
70
86
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
88.2
92.8
Humanity's Last Exam
27.8
43.1
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
26.4
31.7
AA-LCR v1.1
78.3
80.3
CritPt
2.9
17.7
MMMU-Pro
78.0
82.8
IFBench
75.2
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
67.7
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
61.4
81.3
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
40.7
52.1
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
55.9
DeepSWE
—
56.6
WebDev Arena
1,461
1,671
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,443
1,481
| Metric | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Proprietary | Qwen3.8-Max License | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Apr 2, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Alibaba Cloud | Alibaba Cloud | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 66K | 131K | B +66K |
| Parameters | — | 2.4T (95B act.) | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.50 | $2 | A +$1.50 |
| Output $/1M | $3 | $6 | A +$3 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $1.13 | $3 | A +$1.88 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 70 | 86 | B +16 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.4 | B +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 88.2 | 92.8 | B +4.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 27.8 | 43.1 | B +15.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 26.4 | 31.7 | B +5.3 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 78.3 | 80.3 | B +2.0 pts |
| CritPt | 2.9 | 17.7 | B +14.8 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.0 | 82.8 | B +4.8 pts |
| IFBench | 75.2 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 67.7 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 61.4 | 81.3 | B +19.9 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 40.7 | 52.1 | B +11.4 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | 55.9 | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 56.6 | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,461 | 1,671 | B +210 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,443 | 1,481 | B +37 Elo |
Qwen3.6 Plus
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.50 / $3
- Speed
- 70 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Alibaba hosted flagship (Apr 2026) for agentic coding and multimodality — 1M context via DashScope; always-on reasoning.
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.
Benchmark charts
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