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AI models · Alibaba (Qwen)

Qwen3.8-Max

“A 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship with a major leap in coding and office productivity” Alibaba (Qwen), in its own words

  • $2 / $6per million tokens in / out, the maker's price
  • 1Mtokens it reads at once
  • 156.9Epoch Capabilities Index, #20 of the models Epoch scores
The facts

Qwen3.8-Max at a glance.

From Alibaba (Qwen)'s own pages, read Oct 20, 2026, so company-reported. A token is a word or part of a word. Prices can change; check the maker's page before you build on them.

Made by
Alibaba (Qwen)Based in China
What it is for
“A 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship with a major leap in coding and office productivity”Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: qwen3.8-max Model Info, Oct 11, 2026 · in Alibaba (Qwen)'s words
Reads at once
1M tokensIts context window: how much text it can take in one go
Takes in
text, image, video
Download
No, online only
Size
2.4T (MoE) parameters, 95B activeHugging Face model card Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, Oct 20, 2026
Price for developers

$2per million tokens in$6per million tokens out

Singapore (international) deployment prices. Implicit cache input $0.25; explicit cache creation $2.50, explicit cache read $0.17. No input-length tiers listed on this page.

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: qwen3.8-max Model Info, Oct 11, 2026 · company-reported

Independent tests

Where it ranks.

Its position on each of the 21 tests the models page uses, by testers other than the maker. Epoch AI's and Vectara's scores are shown under their open licenses; for LMArena, Scale and Vals we give the position and link to their own leaderboard. Each list is a snapshot with its date.

All-round
TestRankScore
Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI, Oct 20, 2026#20156.9range 155.07 to 159.09
Vals IndexVals AI, Oct 19, 2026Not in the top 20
Coding
TestRankScore
LMArena WebDevLMArena, Oct 19, 2026#11On LMArena
SWE-Bench ProScale AI, Sep 22, 2026Not in the top 16
Vibe Code BenchVals AI, Oct 18, 2026Not in the top 20
LMArena coding chatsLMArena, Oct 15, 2026Not in the top 20
Writing and conversation
TestRankScore
LMArena textLMArena, Oct 15, 2026Not in the top 20
LMArena creative writingLMArena, Oct 15, 2026#19On LMArena
MultiChallengeScale AI, Feb 3, 2026Not in the top 15
Agents and computer use
TestRankScore
LMArena Agent ArenaLMArena, Oct 19, 2026Not in the top 20
Remote Labor IndexScale AINot in the top 16
Terminal-Bench 4.0Vals AI, Oct 19, 2026#16On Vals AI
CUA-bench (games)Vals AI, Oct 13, 2026Not in the top 9
Math and science
TestRankScore
LMArena mathLMArena, Oct 15, 2026#18On LMArena
Humanity's Last ExamScale AINot in the top 17
ProofBenchVals AI, Oct 12, 2026Not in the top 20
Images and documents
TestRankScore
LMArena visionLMArena, Oct 19, 2026#2On LMArena
LMArena documentsLMArena, Sep 13, 2026Not in the top 20
More exam questions
TestRankScore
GPQA DiamondVals AI, Sep 1, 2026#6On Vals AI
MMMU ProVals AI, Sep 1, 2026#12On Vals AI
Sticking to the facts
TestRankScore
Vectara hallucination testVectara, Oct 16, 2026Not in our copy of the list

“Not in the top” means it isn't among the models in our copy of that list, which runs to the position shown; it may not have been tested. Vectara's test ranks by how rarely a model adds facts, so lower is better. Positions can be shared when scores tie. Epoch's range is its margin of uncertainty. Epoch AI and Vectara data: CC BY 4.0 and Apache-2.0.

Our note: Release date is the date in the first snapshot's alias; the base model's release date is not stated. The API model is closed, but its base weights are open: the Hugging Face card for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B says Qwen3.8-Max is 'the official version based on Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B' with extras such as vision input. Max input 991,808 tokens; max output 131,072.