Ordinal

Which model is worth using

1 Oct 2026

Alibaba

Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba's flagship in this snapshot. Index 45, and an expensive measured task for that score.

Open weights
45Index · Published
$5.41Per measured task
8.3 pts/$Points / $
39Tokens / sec

No High score is published. Showing Published.

What this workload costs

List price for one call. Reasoning tokens count as output. A cache hit uses the lab’s cache rate when one is published.

Qwen3.8 Max
No cache price
$0.0840

Specs

API id
Not published here
Released
2 Sep 2026
Context
984k
Max output
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Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$6.00
Cache read / 1M
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Knowledge
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Inputs
Text, Image
Weights
Qwen license, not MIT. Read it before you embed the weights.

Round USD list from the 23 Sep 2026 open-weights report, which attributes vendor list prices to Artificial Analysis tracking. A 1 Oct yuan-converted tracker quoted about $1.79 / $5.36. The context is the 984k on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The date is the 0902 snapshot name. About 2.4T total, 95B active.

Vision input, from the open-weights report.

Use it when

You want Alibaba's flagship specifically, including vision, and you have already accepted the Qwen license.

Leave it when

Value shopping. The index matches GLM-5.3 and trails MiMo-V2.6-Pro, while the measured task cost is $5.41. That usually means a lot of generated tokens.

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