In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- Both can be downloaded and run on your own machine.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | Qwen3.8-27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Alibaba (Qwen) · China | Alibaba (Qwen) · China |
| Released | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | Free to download; hosts set prices | Free to download; hosts set prices |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Takes in | text | text, image, video |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (qwen3.8-max (license tag shown on Hugging Face)) | Yes (Apache 2.0) |
| Size | 2.4T parameters, 95B active | 27B (dense) parameters |
| Maker says | “For the first time, Qwen3.8 brings a Qwen-Max-class model to open release.” | “a native vision-language model that understands images and videos, with flexible thinking control” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 11, 2026 · Description | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
None of the boards we follow lists either model yet.
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