In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B reads more at once: a context window of 262K tokens against 256K.
- Both can be downloaded and run on your own machine.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Mistral AI · France | Alibaba (Qwen) · China |
| Released | Apr 28, 2026 | Aug 8, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | $1.50 in / $7.50 out | Free to download; hosts set prices |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Takes in | text, image | text |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (Modified MIT) | Yes (qwen3.8-max (license tag shown on Hugging Face)) |
| Size | 128B (dense) parameters | 2.4T parameters, 95B active |
| Maker says | “Our frontier-class multimodal model optimized for agentic and coding use cases.” | “For the first time, Qwen3.8 brings a Qwen-Max-class model to open release.” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description | Prices, Oct 11, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
None of the boards we follow lists either model yet.
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