Alibaba · released Aug 3, 2026
Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen3.8 Max is Alibaba's flagship and gives solid all-round answers at a low output price.
3 months oldThinks before answering
- Input price
- $2 / M
- Output price
- $6 / M
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Longest reply
- 131K
- Reads
- text, image, video, pdf
- Knows up to
- –
Where it shines
- It costs $2 in, $6 out per million tokens.
- It scores 1261 in search, the best in this lineup.
- It scores 1672 in web dev.
Where it struggles
- It ranks 25th on the agent leaderboard.
Where you can use it
- Alibaba APIAPI$2 in / $6 out per million tokens.
How it scores on each job
Scores run 0 to 100 and blend every measure we have for that job. The number after the dot is its rank among the 33 models in the lineup.
The evidence
| Measure | Score | Rank in lineup | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 157 | #14 | Epoch AI |
| LMArena text | 1484 | #9 | LMArena |
| LMArena hard prompts | 1497 | #9 | LMArena |
| LMArena instruction following | 1481 | #10 | LMArena |
| LMArena multi-turn | 1490 | #6 | LMArena |
| LMArena creative writing | 1477 | #8 | LMArena |
| LMArena writing & language | 1477 | #8 | LMArena |
| LMArena coding | 1503 | #11 | LMArena |
| LMArena math | 1501 | #8 | LMArena |
| LMArena business & finance | 1481 | #6 | LMArena |
| LMArena legal & government | 1494 | #9 | LMArena |
| LMArena medicine | 1503 | #6 | LMArena |
| WebDev Arena | 1672 | #8 | LMArena |
| Vision Arena | 1313 | #5 | LMArena |
| Search Arena | 1261 | #1 | LMArena |
| Agent Arena | #25 | #15 | LMArena |
| GPQA Diamond | 93% | #14 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath | 75% | #13 | Epoch AI |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46% | #16 | Epoch AI |
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