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Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba · Flagship · Aug 2, 2026

Alibaba's hosted flagship for coding and office work, and the highest-rated model in this catalogue on Arena's vision board. A text-only base checkpoint is published separately.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
45.4#10 of 29
API price per 1M tokens
$2 / $6input / output · $3 blended
Context window
1Mtokens
Output speed
37 t/s57s to first answer

Benchmark results

Each row shows this model (blue) against every other model in the catalogue (grey), worst on the left, best on the right.

Overall capability

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index45.4#10 of 29
    11.357.6
  • Epoch Capabilities Index156.4#9 of 16
    146.9167.3
  • LiveBench78.5%#8 of 23
    63.9%83.4%

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.027%#10 of 13

    Claude Code harness, max effort

    14.6%64.8%
  • Arena WebDev1,672#7 of 27

    Preliminary rating

    1,2631,814

Agents & professional work

  • GDPval-AA1,671#7 of 18
    1,2421,866

Reasoning

  • FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)74.7%#7 of 14

    Xhigh effort

    53%93.7%
  • MathArena56.1%#5 of 10
    35.3%90.1%

Knowledge & science

  • GPQA Diamond92.7%#8 of 14

    Xhigh effort

    90.2%95.8%

Multimodal

  • Arena Vision1,301#1 of 15
    1,1991,301

Human preference

  • Arena Text1,482#9 of 24
    1,4251,525

Specs & pricing

Developer
Alibaba
Released
Aug 2, 2026
Availability
Generally available
API model ID
qwen3.8-max
Weights
Proprietary (API only)
Parameters
2.4T (MoE)
Reasoning
Adjustable effort
Accepts
Text, Image, Video
Produces
Text
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Input price
$2 / 1M tokens
Output price
$6 / 1M tokens

Closest alternatives

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    SpaceXAI

    Intelligence 46.5 · $2 / $6

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