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Alibaba · Qwen3.8

Qwen3.8-Max

Closed weightsGenerally availableNewproprietary

Alibaba's flagship hosted Qwen: the managed version of the open Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, adding image/video input, non-thinking mode, 1M context and built-in tools. Now on the 0902 post-training snapshot.

AA Intelligence
45#11 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$2.00/ $6.00
Output speed
40tok/s
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#11 of 142
    45independentv4.3.2, reasoning, 0902 snapshotArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#10 of 88
    38.9%independentreasoning, 0902 snapshot, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#6 of 103
    88.8%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1, reasoning, 0902 snapshot, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗
    86.6%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1, Claude Code harness avg@10, launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#31 of 94
    52.1%independentreasoning, 0902 snapshot, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • SWE-bench Pro#5 of 31
    67.7%vendorClaude Code harness, Qwen-corrected task set, launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 89.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#7 of 103
    1668independentGDPval-AA v2.1, reasoning, 0902 snapshotArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#19 of 142
    92.8%independentreasoning, 0902 snapshot, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗
    92.6%vendorlaunch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#22 of 147
    56.2%vendorwith tools, launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
    43.6%vendorno tools, launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
    43.1%independentreasoning, 0902 snapshot, no tools, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#24 of 139
    17.7%independentreasoning, 0902 snapshot, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#28 of 139
    80.3%independentreasoning, 0902 snapshot, AA-LCRArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#10 of 72
    82.8%independentreasoning, 0902 snapshot, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#14 of 54
    1481independentarena entry "qwen3.8-max", 16,670 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#6 of 54
    1671independentarena entry "qwen3.8-max (preliminary)", 3,218 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) WebDev/Code leaderboard ↗
    1661independentarena entry "qwen3.8-max-0902 (preliminary)", 5,502 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) WebDev/Code leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
AA Intelligence Index (v4.3.2, reasoning, 0803 launch snapshot (deprecated))40independentArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max ↗
DeepSWE 1.1 · launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)56.6%vendorQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
FrontierSWE · launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)73.5 scorevendorQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
IFBench · launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)82.8%vendorQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
Toolathlon Verified · launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)72.5%vendorQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
Agents' Last Exam (pass) · launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)27%vendorQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
MRCR v2 256K (8-needle) · launch version (Qwen3.8-Max column in the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B card)92.9%vendorQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

Specs

Released
August 3, 2026
Parameters
2.4T total, 95B active
Size class
2 to 4T
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Context
1M tokens
Max output
131K tokens
Cached input
$0.25 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$3.20 / 1M
First token
3.04s
  • Price: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (Singapore / International) ↗ Singapore/International list rate, flat across 0-1M input, same for thinking and non-thinking. Cached = implicit cache rate per https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8-max. Alias qwen3.8-max points to snapshot qwen3.8-max-0902 since 2026-09-05 at unchanged prices. A faster qwen3.8-max-prime tier is listed in China (Beijing) only at $3.301/$9.902.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (0902) ↗

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