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Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max arrives as the general-availability flagship of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 line, stepping in for the earlier Max Preview and signaling the brand's continued push toward large-scale reasoning systems. It is framed by OpenRouter as a multimodal reasoning model built for complex reasoning, visual understanding, coding, and agentic workflows, a positioning echoed by the official Qwen blog announcement titled "A New Bar for Coding and Cowork" that drew significant engagement on Hacker News. In practical terms, it targets developers who need a single model that can read mixed inputs, plan multi-step tasks, and drive tool-using agents rather than narrow chat or completion use cases.

The model's strongest selling points are its breadth of capability and its very long context window, which OpenRouter lists at the cataloged API limit, giving it room to hold sizable codebases, documents, or multi-modal histories in a single prompt. It is positioned as a reasoning-first system suited to coding copilots and "cowork" style agent pipelines that chain planning, retrieval, and tool calls together. Because the weights are not distributed as open-source, it is primarily consumed through hosted APIs, where OpenRouter reports a single-provider deployment with rounded pricing of two dollars per million input tokens and six per million output. Teams evaluating it should weigh that closed-weight, hosted posture against the convenience of its large context and coding-focused design.

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Aug 3, 2026
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$1.88
Output token cost
$5.63

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131,072 tokens
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1,000,000 tokens

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Aivancity's technical write-up confirms that Alibaba Cloud officially unveiled Qwen3.8-Max on August 3, 2026, describing it as the largest and most capable Qwen model to date, with 2,400 billion total parameters (95 billion active), a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, and a reported context window of one million tokens. For practitioners, the practical signal is that long-running, agent-style coding tasks and large-context workflows are the use cases Alibaba is targeting, with clear improvement on coding and certain professional benchmarks but no claim of overall superiority. The open-weight distribution under Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B makes

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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max debuted as a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active parameters, first going live through Alibaba's QwenCloud API on August 2, 2026. The open-weight variant, packaged as Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, was published on Hugging Face and ModelScope on August 13, w For developers evaluating coding agents and large-context workloads, the technical takeaway is the combination of a 1M-token context window, MoE efficiency that keeps active parameters manageable, and Apache 2.0 weights that make self-hosting feasible. The release lands amid a crowded September 2026 frontier cycle in w

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On September 2, 2026, Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max-0902, a post-training upgrade to Qwen3.8-Max that keeps the same 2.4 trillion parameter architecture and 1 million token context while focusing on coding and long-horizon agent performance. The new variant ranks first overall on Code Arena WebDev with 1,691 points, edg The Qwen3.8-Max-0902 update leads Claude Opus 5 on three coding benchmarks (MLS-Bench-Lite, SWE-Atlas QnA, QwenSWEBench V2) and wins on WorkArena and both published multimodal evaluations, though Claude retains leads on TerminalBench 3.0, DeepSWE 1.1, and several agent coordination benchmarks. Additional strong gains a

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A third-party benchmark breakdown of Qwen3.8-Max published August 14, 2026 details the model's published scores: PaperBench 93.0, IFBench 82.8, Terminal Bench 2.1 at 86.6, MathVision 95.2, and OSWorld-Verified 86.1, alongside reported losses at HLE 43.6 (last among the four flagships compared) and SWE-bench Pro 67.7 (r The same piece provides context on reported pricing of $2 input and $6 output per million tokens (roughly a third of Claude Opus 5 and a quarter of GPT-5.6 Sol) and comparative framing against Kimi K3, Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol, recommending the benchmark table be treated as a strong vendor claim rather than an independ

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Roboflow's evaluation of Qwen3.8-Max for vision tasks confirms the model accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text, available through the Alibaba Cloud API and testable in Roboflow Playground. The model delivered the strongest object detection results in Roboflow's upcoming VLM benchmark, performing wel The vision workflow requires prompting the model to return a JSON list containing a label and four coordinates per detected object, which Roboflow then parses and converts into bounding boxes, with Qwen models working best on XYXY coordinates normalized to a range of 0 to 1000. Open weights were scheduled for release o

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Alibaba officially announced Qwen3.8-Max on August 3, 2026, describing it as the most powerful model in its Qwen series to date. The model is a multimodal foundation built on a Qwen 3.5 base with a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture and hybrid attention mechanism, totaling 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion ac The creator-attributed announcement confirms Qwen3.8-Max natively supports visual intelligence and is positioned as Alibaba's flagship, with availability also through QwenWork, Alibaba's all-in-one workplace AI agent platform. Ranked fourth on Fronted Code Arena, the model is designed for autonomous coding and long-hor

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Qwen officially released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 95 billion active parameters built on the architectural foundation of Qwen 3.5, marking the first time weights of a Qwen-Max-class model will be open-sourced (releasing the week following the announcement). The post, republishe The announcement positions Qwen3.8-Max against Opus 4.8, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Gemini 3.1 Pro with full benchmark tables, covering coding, RL infrastructure gains, and multimodal agent capabilities. The release emphasizes end-to-end, dependable delivery of complex tasks rather than single-turn response quality, and

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EvoLink's partner blog confirms that Qwen released qwen3.8-max on August 3, 2026 as QwenCloud's new flagship, with the official model catalog listing a 1M-token context window, Thinking, Function Calling, built-in tools, and Structured Output. Qwen's release log describes a native vision-language, 2.4-trillion-paramete The article explicitly addresses naming confusion, stressing that Qwen3.8 Max is not Qwen3-8B: Qwen3.8 is a 2026 model generation while Qwen3-8B is an older eight-billion-parameter checkpoint, so older downloads and local-deployment guides do not describe qwen3.8-max. It also flags that open weights and a license were

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