Qwen3.8-Max
- In Input modalities: TextImageVideo Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· low, medium, xhigh
- Reasoning can be off
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
8 offerings · prices as listedqwen3.8-max| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $1.65 | $0.206 | — | $4.951 |
| Explicit cache | — | $0.137 | $2.063 | — |
Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026) · Qwen3.8 Max model (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)
qwen3.8-max| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $2.00 | $0.25 | — | $6.00 |
| Explicit cache | — | $0.17 | $2.50 | — |
Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026) · Qwen3.8 Max model (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)
qwen3.8-max| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | ¥12.00 | ¥0.25 | — | ¥36.00 |
| Explicit cache | — | ¥0.17 | ¥2.50 | — |
Prices from 阿里云百炼：模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026) · Qwen3.8 Max model (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 1, 2026)
qwen3.8-max| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | ¥2.00 | ¥6.00 |
Prices from Qwen3.8 Max model (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 1, 2026)
qwen3.8-max| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $2.00 | $6.00 |
Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)
qwen3.8-max| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard no longer listed since Oct 21, 2026 | $1.65 | $4.951 |
Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Max input
- 991.81K
- Max thinking budget
- 262.14K
- Open weights
- —
- Family
- qwen-max
- Aliases
- qwen3.8-max-2026-09-02
- Model ID
Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: built-in tools, knowledge cutoff.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- Epoch Capabilities Index 157.4
#27 of 118 listed models · CI 155.3–159.7
- LMArena Text 1,484
#18 of 163 listed models · CI 1,480–1,489 · 35,805 votes
- Epoch AI · Chess Puzzles 46%
#25 of 85 listed models · xhigh effort · ±5.01
- Epoch AI · FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 46.3%
#24 of 65 listed models · xhigh effort · ±7.88
- Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 28 – Nov 5, 2026
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- LiveBench (White et al.), release 2026-06-25, livebench.ai, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This board, adapted from it, is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. · License · as of Jun 25, 2026
- changes we made
Provider-reported scores
Published by Alibaba Qwen, under the conditions it states| Benchmark | Setting | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Claude Code harness, avg@10 | 86.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 92.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | no tools | 43.6% |
| with tools | 56.2% | |
| IFBench | — | 82.8% |
| MRCR v2 | 256K, 8-needle | 92.9% |
| SWE-bench Pro | refined benchmark, Claude Code harness, temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, 256K context | 67.7% |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | best of Claude Code and mini-SWE-agent harnesses (Claude Code), temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, 256K context | 56.6% |
Changes
All changes →- Now priced on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, US Input $2.00 · Output $6.00
Sources
- Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 9, 2026
- 阿里云百炼：模型价格in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
- Text generation models - Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM | Model Studio - Alibaba Cloud Model Studio - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center (opens in a new tab) docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Qwen3.8 Max model (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
- qwen3.8-max (opens in a new tab) docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com · checked Nov 6, 2026
- Qwen3.8 Max model (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Nov 1, 2026
- OpenAI compatible - Chat (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Nov 7, 2026
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
- OpenAI compatible - Chat-Alibaba Cloud Model Studio(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Nov 7, 2026
- Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 9, 2026
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