vs
2:0
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Qwen3.8 Max 0902 leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max 0902 offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K); Qwen3.8 Max 0902 allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K); Qwen3 Max is ~1.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Qwen3.8 Max 0902.
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902 offers ~3.8x larger context (1M vs 262K)
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902 allows ~4.0x more max output (131K vs 33K)
- Qwen3 Max is ~1.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Qwen3.8 Max 0902
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Qwen3.8 Max 0902
- $3.50
- Qwen3 Max
- $1.75
Qwen3 Max is about 2.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Alibaba
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Qwen
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Sep 2, 2026
Sep 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
262K
Max output
131K
33K
Parameters
2.4T (95B act.)
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$0.50
Output $/1M
$6
$5
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$1.63
Speed
tok/s
-
65
TTFT (s)
-
0.5
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
84.1
GPQA Diamond
—
76.4
Humanity's Last Exam
—
11.9
AIME 2025
—
80.7
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
24.4
AA-LCR v1.1
—
50.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
44.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
76.7
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
38.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,681
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,424
| Metric | Qwen3.8 Max 0902 | Qwen3 Max | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Alibaba | Alibaba | — |
| Family | Qwen | Qwen | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Sep 2, 2026 | Sep 1, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Alibaba Cloud | Alibaba Cloud | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 262K | A +738K |
| Max output | 131K | 33K | A +98K |
| Parameters | 2.4T (95B act.) | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $0.50 | B +$1.50 |
| Output $/1M | $6 | $5 | B +$1 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3 | $1.63 | B +$1.38 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | 65 | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | 0.5 | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 84.1 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.4 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 11.9 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | 80.7 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 24.4 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 50.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | 44.1 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 76.7 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 38.3 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,681 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,424 | — |
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.
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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