Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3.8-Max

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3.8-27BGA
8.5
AI Panel
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3.8-MaxGA
8.6
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAlibaba CloudAlibaba Cloud
Family / tierQwen3.8 · LargeQwen3.8 · Max
StatusGAGA
Released2026-08-142026-08-03
Knowledge cutoff——

Architecture & context

Context window1M1M
Max output tokens131K131K
Input modalitiestext, image, videotext, image, video
Reasoning modeoptionaloptional
Open weightsYesYes

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$0.5$2
Output$3$6
Cached input$0.05$0.17
Batch input——
Free tierYesYes

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)46.439.1
Time to first token (s)3.943.02
Latency tierslowslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputs——
LicenseApache-2.0custom-qwen3.8-max-license
CloudsAlibaba Cloud Model Studio—
Compliance——

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.58.6
Decision Maker98.5
Domain Strategist99
Finance Lead8.58.5
Domain Practitioner98.5
Power User7.58
Skeptic87.5
Value score98.8

Benchmarks

GPQA Diamond90.592.6
LiveCodeBench90.3—
Terminal-Bench79.886.6
MRCR Long Context—92.9
Humanity's Last Exam33.943.6
LMArena Elo14371481
LMArena Coding Elo14991522
Artificial Analysis Index3440

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