Qwen3.8-Max vs Qwen3.8-Flash

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-FlashGA
8.4
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAlibaba CloudAlibaba Cloud
Family / tierQwen3.8 · MaxQwen3.8 · Flash
StatusGAGA
Released2026-08-032026-08-26
Knowledge cutoff——

Architecture & context

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

Pricing (per Mtok)

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

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)39.156.6
Time to first token (s)3.022.72
Latency tierslowslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputs——
Licensecustom-qwen3.8-max-licenseQwen-Community-License-1.0
Clouds—Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
Compliance——

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.68.4
Decision Maker8.58.5
Domain Strategist99
Finance Lead8.59
Domain Practitioner8.58.5
Power User88
Skeptic7.57.5
Value score8.89.5

Benchmarks

GPQA Diamond92.692.3
LiveCodeBench—91.9
Terminal-Bench86.686.1
MRCR Long Context92.9—
Humanity's Last Exam43.638
LMArena Elo1481—
LMArena Coding Elo1522—
Artificial Analysis Index4040

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.