Qwen3.8-Max-Preview
First Available on Token Plan
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is a preview model release and the exclusive debut model of the Model Studio Token Plan for Individual. It combines frontier-level text reasoning with vision understanding for coding, data analysis, office workflows, and multimodal inputs.
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LocalLLaMA users said Qwen 3.8 Max 2.4T open weights are text-only while the API keeps vision support. A linked Qwen3.8-27B ModelScope page reportedly returned 404 before release.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max is live on Venice and OpenRouter while open weights are still described as coming soon. Reports cite a 2.4T-parameter model with strong Vals and vision benchmark results.
Alibaba said Qwen3.8-Max left preview as a 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active parameters and $2/$6 per million-token pricing. Arena placed it on the Frontend Code Arena cost-performance frontier.
Alibaba opened Qwen 3.8 Max Preview on Alibaba Cloud, Qwen Chat, Qoder and the web, describing it as a 2.4T model headed for open weights. Early testers praised vision results but disputed coding claims.
Multiple testers reported Kaleb and torenia-alpha appearing in Code Arena/LMArena, and several pointed to Qwen-like token quirks in Kaleb. Follow-up tests described strong 3D output and a late-2025 or early-2026 cutoff, but the model identity remains unconfirmed.