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Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba · released Aug 3, 2026

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Alibaba's top hosted Qwen: a 2.4-trillion-parameter model that takes text, images and video with a 1M-token context, aimed at long autonomous coding, office work and multimodal agents. It has the highest Arena Vision rating of any model tracked here.

Best for: Image and video understanding · Long coding sessions · Multimodal agents

Announcement
Intelligence Index
45.4
#10 of 38
Price per 1M tokens
$2 in $6 out
Blended $3 at 3:1
Context window
1M
Up to 131K output
Output speed
37 tokens/s
$5.41 measured cost per task

Capability profile

One 0–100 score per area, placing this model between the weakest and strongest tracked model across that area's benchmarks.

  • Overall69 · #12 of 38

    Based on 3 of 3 benchmarks

  • Coding56 · #16 of 39

    Based on 5 of 5 benchmarks

  • Agents & knowledge work68 · #15 of 40

    Based on 6 of 6 benchmarks

  • Reasoning & science60 · #17 of 39

    Based on 2 of 2 benchmarks

  • Knowledge & reliability70 · #16 of 39

    Based on 2 of 2 benchmarks

  • Vision89 · #5 of 31

    Based on 2 of 2 benchmarks

Benchmark results

All third-party results on record. Rank is among the tracked models that have been tested on that benchmark.

Overall

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index45.4

    #10 of 38· Artificial Analysis

  • Vals Index48.3%

    #20 of 26· $4.96 per test· Vals AI

  • Arena · Text1482 ±5

    #9 of 33· Max effort· 23,353 votes· Arena

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.038.9%

    #8 of 38· Artificial Analysis

  • SciCode52.1%

    #19 of 38· Artificial Analysis

  • Arena · WebDev1672 ±12

    #7 of 34· Max effort· 3,450 votes· Arena

  • Vibe Code Bench64.7%

    #22 of 26· Vals AI

  • Code Migration23.2%

    #20 of 26· Vals AI

Agents & knowledge work

  • GDPval-AA58.6

    #7 of 39· Artificial Analysis

  • Arena · Agent+2.5 ±0.6

    #14 of 29· Arena

  • Finance Agent v250.6%

    #20 of 26· Vals AI

  • Excel Modeling Benchmark60.1%

    #15 of 26· Vals AI

  • Legal Research Bench47.6%

    #7 of 26· Vals AI

  • Tax Agent Bench66.0%

    #9 of 26· Vals AI

Reasoning & science

  • Humanity's Last Exam43.1%

    #14 of 39· Artificial Analysis

  • CritPt17.7%

    #17 of 39· Artificial Analysis

  • ARC-AGI-2saturatingNot tested
  • ARC-AGI-3Not tested
  • GPQA Diamondsaturating92.8%

    #8 of 27· Artificial Analysis

Knowledge & reliability

  • AA-Omniscience12

    #14 of 39· Artificial Analysis

  • AA-LCR80.3%

    #20 of 39· Artificial Analysis

Vision

  • MMMU-Pro82.8%

    #5 of 27· Artificial Analysis

  • Arena · Vision1301 ±7

    #1 of 19· Max effort· 10,040 votes· Arena

Reported by Alibaba

Numbers the lab published at launch, run on its own harness and settings. Useful context, but not independently verified and never used in the rankings on this site.

  • SWE-bench Pro · Claude Code harness67.7%
  • OSWorld-Verified86.1%
  • MMMU-Pro82.3%
  • GPQA Diamond92.6%

Specifications

Lab
Alibaba
Released
Aug 3, 2026
Availability
Generally available
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Accepts
Text, Images, Video
Knowledge cutoff
Not published
Weights
Closed
Parameters
2.4T total · 95B active
Reasoning control
Effort low to xhigh · can be switched off
API model ID
qwen3.8-max

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens
$2
Cached input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M tokens
$6
Blended (3:1)
$3
Measured cost / task
$5.41

International list price on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.

Worth knowing

  • A text-only version of the same model is downloadable as Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B under a custom licence.

Official sources

  • Announcement
  • Model page

Closest alternatives

The models nearest to this one on overall score.

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    Price / 1M
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    $3
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    Price / 1M
    $1.5
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