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Alibaba · Qwen3.8

Qwen3.8-27B

Open weightsGenerally availableNewApache-2.0

Dense 27B vision-language Qwen under Apache-2.0 that runs on a single GPU; the successor to Qwen3.6-27B for local and self-hosted coding and agent work.

AA Intelligence
34#33 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.50/ $3.00
Output speed
44tok/s
Context window
262K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#33 of 142
    34independentv4.3.2, reasoning, xhigh effortArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗
    20independentv4.3.2, non-reasoningArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (Non-reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#37 of 88
    5.6%independentreasoning, xhigh effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#24 of 103
    79.8%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1, reasoning, xhigh effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗
    73%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1, Terminus harnessQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#52 of 94
    46.6%independentreasoning, xhigh effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • SWE-bench Pro#11 of 31
    61.7%vendorQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 89.9%

  • LiveCodeBench#3 of 56
    90.3%vendorLiveCodeBench v6Qwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#29 of 103
    1409independentGDPval-AA v2.1, reasoning, xhigh effortArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • OSWorld-Verified#2 of 16
    84.3%vendorOSWorld-VerifiedQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#36 of 142
    90.5%independentreasoning, xhigh effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗
    89.2%vendorQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#50 of 147
    33.9%independentreasoning, xhigh effort, no tools, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗
    30.8%vendorno toolsQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#48 of 139
    5.4%independentreasoning, xhigh effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#20 of 139
    82%independentreasoning, xhigh effort, AA-LCRArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#32 of 72
    76.3%independentreasoning, xhigh effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#40 of 54
    1437independentarena entry "qwen3.8-27b", 10,697 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#22 of 54
    1591independentarena entry "qwen3.8-27b", 9,242 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) WebDev/Code leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
IFBench79.5%vendorQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
DeepSWE 1.142.2%vendorQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
AndroidWorld81.9%vendorQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
OmniDocBench 1.591.1 scorevendorQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

Specs

Released
August 14, 2026
Parameters
27B
Size class
10 to 40B
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Context
262K tokens
Max output
Not published
Blended 70/30
$1.25 / 1M
First token
3.96s
  • Price: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (Singapore / International) ↗ Hosted as qwen3.8-27b on Model Studio (Singapore/International), 0-1M input tier, thinking and non-thinking. Native context 262,144 tokens, extensible to 1M.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) (xhigh) ↗

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