Qwen3.8-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Max

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

Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3.8-FlashGA
8.4
AI Panel
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3.8-MaxGA
8.6
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAlibaba CloudAlibaba Cloud
Family / tierQwen3.8 · FlashQwen3.8 · Max
StatusGAGA
Released2026-08-262026-08-03
Knowledge cutoff——

Architecture & context

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

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$0.15$2
Output$0.47$6
Cached input$0.016$0.17
Batch input——
Free tierYesYes

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)56.639.1
Time to first token (s)2.723.02
Latency tierslowslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputs——
LicenseQwen-Community-License-1.0custom-qwen3.8-max-license
CloudsAlibaba Cloud Model Studio—
Compliance——

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.48.6
Decision Maker8.58.5
Domain Strategist99
Finance Lead98.5
Domain Practitioner8.58.5
Power User88
Skeptic7.57.5
Value score9.58.8

Benchmarks

GPQA Diamond92.392.6
LiveCodeBench91.9—
Terminal-Bench86.186.6
MRCR Long Context—92.9
Humanity's Last Exam3843.6
LMArena Elo—1481
LMArena Coding Elo—1522
Artificial Analysis Index4040

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