Qwen3.8-Max vs Qwen3.8-Flash 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-FlashGA
8.4
AI Panel
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen3.8-27BGA
8.5
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAlibaba CloudAlibaba CloudAlibaba Cloud
Family / tierQwen3.8 · MaxQwen3.8 · FlashQwen3.8 · Large
StatusGAGAGA
Released2026-08-032026-08-262026-08-14
Knowledge cutoff———

Architecture & context

Context window1M1M1M
Max output tokens131K131K131K
Input modalitiestext, image, videotext, image, videotext, image, video
Reasoning modeoptionaloptionaloptional
Open weightsYesYesYes

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$2$0.15$0.5
Output$6$0.47$3
Cached input$0.17$0.016$0.05
Batch input———
Free tierYesYesYes

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)39.156.646.4
Time to first token (s)3.022.723.94
Latency tierslowslowslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputs———
Licensecustom-qwen3.8-max-licenseQwen-Community-License-1.0Apache-2.0
Clouds—Alibaba Cloud Model StudioAlibaba Cloud Model Studio
Compliance———

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.68.48.5
Decision Maker8.58.59
Domain Strategist999
Finance Lead8.598.5
Domain Practitioner8.58.59
Power User887.5
Skeptic7.57.58
Value score8.89.59

Benchmarks

GPQA Diamond92.692.390.5
LiveCodeBench—91.990.3
Terminal-Bench86.686.179.8
MRCR Long Context92.9——
Humanity's Last Exam43.63833.9
LMArena Elo1481—1437
LMArena Coding Elo1522—1499
Artificial Analysis Index404034

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