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

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

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

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAlibaba CloudAlibaba Cloud
Family / tierQwen3.8 · MaxQwen3.8 · Large
StatusGAGA
Released2026-08-032026-08-14
Knowledge cutoff——

Architecture & context

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

Pricing (per Mtok)

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

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)39.146.4
Time to first token (s)3.023.94
Latency tierslowslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputs——
Licensecustom-qwen3.8-max-licenseApache-2.0
Clouds—Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
Compliance——

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.68.5
Decision Maker8.59
Domain Strategist99
Finance Lead8.58.5
Domain Practitioner8.59
Power User87.5
Skeptic7.58
Value score8.89

Benchmarks

GPQA Diamond92.690.5
LiveCodeBench—90.3
Terminal-Bench86.679.8
MRCR Long Context92.9—
Humanity's Last Exam43.633.9
LMArena Elo14811437
LMArena Coding Elo15221499
Artificial Analysis Index4034

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