ApertureAug 2026
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Alibaba (Qwen)
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Qwen3.8 27B

Aug 2026 · Open weight · Current · supported evidence

Dense 27B that hangs with models 50× its size. The local / workstation Qwen, not the datacenter Max.

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Intelligence

52

AA Index

API price

$2.55 / $2.55

Input / output per 1M

Context

262K

47 tok/s

Capability

Intelligence Index52
Coding index68.1
Agentic index50.9
Arena Elo (offset)136

Use it when

  • ▸Local 24–80GB boxes
  • ▸Fine-tunes

Skip if

  • –You can run Max and wanted the flagship

Benchmarks

GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions designed so Google search is not enough. Still one of the cleanest knowledge/reasoning splits.
89.2%
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-written questions across fields. Harder than MMLU; the current differentiator for “does this model actually know things.”
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MMLU-Pro
Harder, less-saturated successor to MMLU. Classic MMLU is above 90% for every flagship and no longer ranks the field.
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SWE-bench Verified
500 human-validated GitHub issues. Score swings 5–15 points by harness — treat vendor numbers as an upper bound.
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SWE-bench Pro
Harder, contamination-resistant coding eval. Currently the best public split between “can code” and “can maintain a repo.”
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Terminal-Bench 2.1
End-to-end tasks in a real terminal. Better proxy for coding agents than HumanEval, which is fully saturated.
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ARC-AGI-2
Abstract visual puzzles. Rewards generalization over memorization. GPT-5.6 Sol currently leads the published set.
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AIME 2025
American Invitational Mathematics Examination. Contest math; reasoning-mode models dominate.
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MMMU
College-level multimodal understanding across diagrams, charts, and exam figures.
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Modalities

text · tools

27B dense

Reasoning mode

reasoning

Hybrid and reasoning models spend tokens thinking. That raises GPQA and agents, and also raises latency and bill.

Close on intelligence

  • AClaude Sonnet 555.3
  • OGPT-5.6 Luna52.3
  • QQwen3.8 Flash50

Same lab

  • Qwen3.8 Max
  • Qwen3.8 Flash

Aperture is a field guide, not a vendor. Scores compiled 28 Aug 2026.

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