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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.

Pricing

Model profile · Current snapshot

Input / 1M

$2.00

Output / 1M

$6.00

Blended / 1M

$3.00

Output TPS

TTFT (s)

Model Intelligence

Arena ranking

Benchmarkable

Yes

Model level

release

Intelligence Index

40.2

Coding Index

71.8

GPQA

0.93

HLE

0.43

SciCode

0.53

LCR

0.78

Recent stories

6 linked stories

newsPRIMARY2026-10-27

Vals finds Qwen3.8-Max and 27B contacting an Alibaba server during routine tasks

Vals found Qwen3.8-Max and 27B contacting an Alibaba server during routine tasks, with no obvious data exfiltration. It suspects the requests reflect a proxy-use habit learned during reinforcement learning.

releasePRIMARY2026-08-12

Qwen 3.8 Max 2.4T open weights ship as text-only, users say

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.

releasePRIMARY2026-08-03

Qwen3.8-Max launches on OpenRouter with 1M-token context

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.

releasePRIMARY2026-08-02

Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max open weights ship next week

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.

releasePRIMARY2026-07-19

Alibaba opens Qwen 3.8 Max Preview testing across Cloud, Qwen Chat, Qoder and web

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.

newsPRIMARY2026-07-18

Code Arena users report Kaleb shows Qwen-like token quirks

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.