vs
7:1
overall capability wins (1 ties across 9 scored). Qwen3.8 27B leads overall.
- Reasoning3:1
- Coding2:0
- Arena1:0
- Specs1:0
Verdict
Qwen3.8 27B leads coding (widest gap: +13.6 on LiveCode); Qwen3.8 27B ranks higher on LMArena (+13 Elo); Qwen3.8 27B allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K).
- Qwen3.8 27B leads coding (widest gap: +13.6 on LiveCode)
- Qwen3.8 27B ranks higher on LMArena (+13 Elo)
- Qwen3.8 27B allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K)
- Qwen3.8 27B ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3.8 27B
- -
- Qwen3 Max
- $1.75
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Apache 2.0
Proprietary
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Aug 14, 2026
Sep 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
No primary API price listed
Alibaba Cloud
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
262K
262K
Max output
131K
33K
Parameters
27B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
—
$0.50
Output $/1M
—
$5
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
-
$1.63
Speed
tok/s
-
65
TTFT (s)
-
0.5
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
84.1
GPQA Diamond
90.5
76.4
Humanity's Last Exam
33.9
11.9
AIME 2025
—
80.7
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
15.6
24.4
AA-LCR v1.1
82.0
50.0
CritPt
5.4
—
MMMU-Pro
76.3
—
IFBench
—
44.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
61.7
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
90.3
76.7
Terminal-Bench 2.1
79.8
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
46.6
38.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
42.3
—
DeepSWE
42.2
—
WebDev Arena
1,593
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,437
1,424
| Metric | Qwen3.8 27B | Qwen3 Max | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Aug 14, 2026 | Sep 1, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | No primary API price listed | Alibaba Cloud | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 262K | 262K | tie |
| Max output | 131K | 33K | A +98K |
| Parameters | 27B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | — | $0.50 | — |
| Output $/1M | — | $5 | — |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | - | $1.63 | — |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | 65 | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | 0.5 | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 84.1 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5 | 76.4 | A +14.1 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 33.9 | 11.9 | A +22.0 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | 80.7 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 15.6 | 24.4 | B +8.8 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 82.0 | 50.0 | A +32.0 pts |
| CritPt | 5.4 | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 76.3 | — | — |
| IFBench | — | 44.1 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61.7 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 90.3 | 76.7 | A +13.6 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 79.8 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 46.6 | 38.3 | A +8.3 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | 42.3 | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 42.2 | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,593 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,437 | 1,424 | A +13 Elo |
Qwen3.8 27B
- Context
- 262K / 131K out
- Parameters
- 27B
- Price
- —
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Open-weight Qwen3.8 27B dense vision-language model (Apache-2.0, released Aug 14, 2026) — native image and video understanding, 262K context extensible to 1M, flexible thinking control via reasoning_effort, and strong agentic coding for its size (Terminal-Bench 2.1 73.0, SWE-bench Pro 61.7, GPQA Diamond 89.2).
Qwen3 Max
- Context
- 262K / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.50 / $5
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.5s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Earlier Qwen Max API model; solid coding with competitive Chinese-market pricing.
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